Domestic
Pronunciation
- GenAm IPA: /dəˈmɛstɪk/
- Rhymes: -ɛstɪk
- Hyphenation: do + mes + tic
Alternative forms
- domestick obsolete
Origin
From Middle French domestique, from Latin domesticus, from domus ("house, home").
Full definition of domestic
Adjective
domestic
- Of or relating to the home.
- 1994, George Whitmore, Getting Rid of Robert in Violet Quill:“Dan’s not as domestic as you," I commented rather nastily.
- Of or relating to activities normally associated with the home, wherever they actually occur.domestic violence
- (of an animal) Kept by someone, for example as a farm animal or a pet.
- 1890, US Bureau of Animal Industry, Annual report v 6/7, 1889/90It shall be the duty of any owner or person in charge of any domestic animal or animals.
- Internal to a specific country.
- 1996, Robert O. Keohane, Helen V. Milner, Internationalization and Domestic Politics:The proportion of international economic flows relative to domestic ones.
- 2013-08-03, Boundary problems, Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
Synonyms
- (of or relating to the home) bourgeois, civilized, comfortable
- (kept by someone) domesticated
Antonyms
- (of or relating to the home) adventurous, social
- (local) foreign
- (kept by someone) wild, feral
Derived terms
Noun
domestic
(plural domestics)- A house servant; a maid; a household worker.
- Mary Romero, Maid in the U.S.A. - New standards of cleanliness increased the workload for domestics.
- A domestic dispute, whether verbal or violent
- 2005: Bellingham-Whatcom County Commission Against Domestic Violence, Domestic Violence in Whatcom County (read on the Whatcom County website at on 20 May 2006) - The number of “verbal domestics†(where law enforcement determines that no assault has occurred and where no arrest is made), decreased significantly.