domestic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəˈmɛs.tɪk/
ipa: /-stək/
ipa: /dəˈmes.tɪk/
rhymes: -ɛstɪk
Forms: form: more domestic
form: most domestic
form: domestick
Etymology: From Middle French domestique, from Latin domesticus, from domus (“house, home”).
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the home.
examples: text: domestic violence; domestic hot water
text: The relationship between a hairstylist and a client can be far more than simply somebody to cut and shape hair, which is why Tennessee is the latest state to require cosmetologists to complete training on how to recognize and respond to signs of domestic abuse.
ref: 2022 January 5, Kaanita Iyer, “Tennessee is the latest state to require hairstylists to complete domestic violence training”, in CNN:
glosses: Of or relating to activities normally associated with the home, wherever they actually occur.
examples: text: It shall be the duty of any owner or person in charge of any domestic animal or animals.
ref: 1890, US Bureau of Animal Industry, Annual report v 6/7, 1889/90:
glosses: Kept by someone, for example as a farm animal or a pet.
raw_tags: of an animal
examples: text: The proportion of international economic flows relative to domestic ones.
ref: 1996, Robert O. Keohane, Helen V. Milner, Internationalization and Domestic Politics:
text: 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.
ref: 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847, archived from the original on 07 Aug 2020:
glosses: Internal to a specific country.
examples: text: “Dan’s not as domestic as you," I commented rather nastily.
ref: 1994, George Whitmore, “Getting Rid of Robert”, in Violet Quill:
text: Homosexual men were non-warlike and homosexual women non-domestic, so that their energies sought different outlets from those of ordinary men and women; they became the initiators of new activities.
ref: 1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 (of 6):
glosses: Tending to stay at home; not outgoing.
Synonyms: sense: of or relating to the home
word: bourgeois
sense: of or relating to the home
word: civilized
sense: of or relating to the home
word: comfortable
sense: kept by someone
word: domesticated
sense: internal to a country
word: intranational
Derived terms: antidomestic
domesticable
domestically
domestic appliance
domestic arts
domestic blindness
domestic cat
domestic debt
domestic dependent nation
domestic dispute
domestic dog
domestic duck
domestic engineer
domestic enquiry
domestic goddess
domestic guinea pig
domestic helper
domestic hot water
domestic inquiry
domesticise
domesticize
domestic partner
domestic partnership
domestic pigeon
domestic policy
domestic policy council
domestic science
domestic sciences
domestic servant
domestic service
domestic sheep
domestic terrorism
domestic violence
domestic worker
domicide
electrodomestic
extradomestic
gross domestic product
interdomestic
intermestic
intradomestic
nondomestic
peridomestic
predomestic
semidomestic
undomestic