Domestic

Word DOMESTIC
Character 8
Hyphenation do mes tic
Pronunciations /dəˈmɛstɪk/

Definitions and meanings of "Domestic"

What do we mean by domestic?

Of or relating to the family or household. adjective

Fond of home life and household affairs. adjective

Tame or domesticated. Used of animals. adjective

Of or relating to a country's internal affairs. adjective

Produced in or indigenous to a particular country. adjective

A household servant. noun

Household linens. noun

A product or substance discovered in, developed in, or exported from a particular country. noun

Relating or belonging to the home or household, or to household affairs; pertaining to one's place of residence, or to the affairs which concern it, or used in the conduct of such affairs: as, domestic concerns; domestic life; domestic duties; domestic servants; domestic animals.

Attached to the occupations of the home or the family; pertaining to home life, or to household affairs or interests: as, a domestic man or woman.

Pertaining to a nation considered as a family, or to one's own country; internal; not foreign: as, domestic dissensions; domestic goods; domestic trade.

Home-made: an epithet applied to certain cotton cloths of American manufacture. See II., 5.

Collectively, the styles or methods pursued in building for domestic purposes; the character or quality of domestic buildings: as, the domestic architecture of England as compared with that of France.

A household servant; a servant residing with a family. noun

A native of a country. noun

An inmate of a house. noun

A domicile; a home. noun

Plural Home-made cotton cloths, either bleached or unbleached, of the grades in common use, and neither printed nor dyed. noun

One who lives in the family of an other, as hired household assistant; a house servant. noun

Articles of home manufacture, especially cotton goods. noun

A house servant; a maid; a household worker.

A domestic dispute, whether verbal or violent

Synonyms and Antonyms for Domestic

The word "domestic" in example sentences

Sarah Palin and a Republican led government are the domestic terrorists yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Sarah Palin and a Republican led government are the domestic terrorists'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: To me true \'domestic terrorism\' is where a government does not respond to the plight of its people. ' ❋ Unknown (2008)

The "Better This World" filmmakers, Katie Galloway and Kelly Duane de la Vega, said they came away from their reporting with a recognition that use of the term "domestic terrorist" had broadened dramatically since the Sept. 11 attacks. ❋ By BRIAN STELTER (2011)

"Though the Supreme Court in Morrison did not explicitly define the phrase 'domestic transactions,' there can be little doubt that the phrase was intended to be a reference to the location of the transaction, not to the location of the purchaser and that the Supreme Court clearly sought to bar claims based on purchases and sales of foreign securities on foreign exchanges, even though the purchasers were American," Judge Holwell said. ❋ Chad Bray (2011)

PILGRIM: You know, you can understand though why average American citizens are worried why the term domestic spying is surfacing. ❋ Unknown (2006)

That's why I wish we'd drop the phrase "domestic violence." ❋ The Huffington Post News Editors (2011)

Definitions vary, but most folks agree that when violence manifests itself in family or friendship circles, the term domestic violence applies. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The term domestic partnership is used to indicate two people who are not in a sexual relationship but are in an intimate family relationship, i.e. brothers, sisters, bachelor friends, mother and adult child, etc. etc. etc. ❋ Unknown (2009)

With Joyce or Calvino, Davenport or Whittemore, the aesthetic of the domestic is an aesthetic of the domestic sublime, in many respects, purposed at transporting the audience to a Moorish wall or a café, a Scandinavian meadow or a bridge, to a moment, precisely in order to make the mundane relevant to the audience in a rapture of import. ❋ Hal Duncan (2010)

Other critics like Professor Dylan Rodriguez see the criminal justice system as a key part of what he calls the domestic war on the marginalized. ❋ Unknown (2010)

As I write this column, Blackwater is using part of the billion plus dollars they have been paid in mostly no-bid contracts to expand what they call their domestic operations division. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Oh yes — with what you call domestic comfort — and that sort of thing. ❋ Unknown (2008)

England, and suggests that the stability of the domestic is always available there, but also always compromised. ❋ Unknown (2006)

BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT: Miles, we can now tell you that the Bush administration is about to convene what they call a domestic event conference. ❋ Unknown (2003)

So the immigration and what I call domestic migration, which is people moving around the United States, they contribute differently to different places. ❋ Unknown (2003)

KING: A major meeting on that front here at the White House, President Bush meeting with what he calls the domestic consequences team, the team designed to deal with the domestic fallout, especially the economic fallout of all of this. ❋ Unknown (2001)

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