domestic

• domestick (obsolete)

From Middle French domestique, from Latin domesticus, from domus (“house, home”).

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /dəˈmɛstɪk/

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• Rhymes: -ɛstɪk
• Hyphenation: do‧mes‧tic

domestic (comparative more domestic, superlative most domestic)

1. 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.

2. Of or relating to activities normally associated with the home, wherever they actually occur.

   domestic violence;  domestic hot water

3. (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, 1889/90

     It shall be the duty of any owner or person in charge of any domestic animal or animals.

4. 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 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:

     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.

5. Tending to stay at home; not outgoing.

• (of or relating to the home): bourgeois, civilized, comfortable
• (kept by someone): domesticated

• (of or relating to the home): adventurous, social
• (local): foreign, global
• (kept by someone): wild, feral

• domestic cat
• domestic hot water
• domestic violence

domestic (plural domestics)

1. 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.
2. 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.

• comedist, cosmetid, demotics, docetism

domestic (not comparable)

1. domestic, domesticated, pertaining to homes, home life or husbandry

Borrowed from French domestique, Latin domesticus. Largely replaced earlier dumesnic.

• IPA^(key): /doˈmes.tik/

domestic m or n (feminine singular domestică, masculine plural domestici, feminine and neuter plural domestice)

1. domestic (of or relating to the home)
2. (of animals) domestic

• (of or related to the house): casnic

• domestici