domestic
adjEtymology
From Middle French domestique, from Latin domesticus, from domus (“house, home”).
- derived from domesticus
- derived from domestique
Definitions
Of or relating to the home.
Of or relating to activities normally associated with the home, wherever they actually…
Of or relating to activities normally associated with the home, wherever they actually occur.
- domestic violence; domestic hot water
Kept by someone, for example as a farm animal or a pet.
- It shall be the duty of any owner or person in charge of any domestic animal or animals.
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Internal to a specific country.
- domestic terrorism
- The proportion of international economic flows relative to domestic ones.
Tending to stay at home
Tending to stay at home; not outgoing.
- “Dan’s not as domestic as you," I commented rather nastily.
- 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.
A maid or household servant.
- New standards of cleanliness increased the workload for domestics.
A domestic dispute, whether verbal or violent.
- Nobody wanted to join the 'Cardigan Squad' – so-called because Child Protection officers were seen as woolly, glorified social workers that mopped up after domestics.
The neighborhood
- neighbordomesticate
- neighbordomesticated
- neighbordomestication
- neighbordomesticity
Derived
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 · +6 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at domestic. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at domestic. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at domestic
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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