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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DOMESTIC, a. [L., a house.]
1. Belonging to the house, or home; pertaining to ones place of residence, and to the family; as domestic concerns; domestic life; domestic duties; domestic affairs; domestic contentions; domestic happiness; domestic worship.
2. Remaining much at home; living in retirement; as a domestic man or woman.
3. Living near the habitations of man; tame; not wild; as domestic animals.
4. Pertaining to a nation considered as a family, or to ones own country; intestine; not foreign; as domestic troubles; domestic dissensions.
5. Made in ones own house, nation or country; as domestic manufactures.
DOMESTIC, n. One who lives in the family of another, as a chaplain or secretary. Also, a servant or hired laborer, residing with a family.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: of concern to or concerning the internal affairs of a nation; "domestic issues such as tax rate and highway construction" [ant: foreign]
2: of or relating to the home; "domestic servant"; "domestic science"
3: of or involving the home or family; "domestic worries"; "domestic happiness"; "they share the domestic chores"; "everything sounded very peaceful and domestic"; "an author of blood-and-thunder novels yet quite domestic in his taste" [ant: undomestic]
4: converted or adapted to domestic use; "domestic animals"; "domesticated plants like maize" [syn: domestic, domesticated]
5: produced in a particular country; "domestic wine"; "domestic oil" n
1: a servant who is paid to perform menial tasks around the household [syn: domestic, domestic help, house servant]

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French domestique, from Latin domesticus, from domus Date: 15th century 1. a. living near or about human habitations b. tame, domesticated <the domestic cat> 2. of, relating to, or originating within a country and especially one's own country <domestic politics> <domestic wines> 3. of or relating to the household or the family <domestic chores> <domestic happiness> 4. devoted to home duties and pleasures <leading a quietly domestic life> 5. indigenous • domestically adverb II. noun Date: 1613 1. a household servant 2. an article of domestic manufacture — usually used in plural

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & n. --adj. 1 of the home, household, or family affairs. 2 a of one's own country, not foreign or international. b home-grown or home-made. 3 (of an animal) kept by or living with man. 4 fond of home life. --n. a household servant. Phrases and idioms: domestic science the study of household management. Derivatives: domestically adv. Etymology: F domestique f. L domesticus f. domus home

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Domestic Do*mes"tic, a. [L. domesticus, fr. domus use: cf. F. domestique. See 1st Dome.] 1. Of or pertaining to one's house or home, or one's household or family; relating to home life; as, domestic concerns, life, duties, cares, happiness, worship, servants. His fortitude is the more extraordinary, because his domestic feelings were unusually strong. --Macaulay. 4. Of or pertaining to a nation considered as a family or home, or to one's own country; intestine; not foreign; as, foreign wars and domestic dissensions. --Shak. 3. Remaining much at home; devoted to home duties or pleasures; as, a domestic man or woman. 4. Living in or near the habitations of man; domesticated; tame as distinguished from wild; as, domestic animals. 5. Made in one's own house, nation, or country; as, domestic manufactures, wines, etc.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Domestic Do*mes"tic, n. 1. One who lives in the family of an other, as hired household assistant; a house servant. The master labors and leads an anxious life, to secure plenty and ease to the domestic. --V. Knox. 2. pl. (Com.) Articles of home manufacture, especially cotton goods. [U. S.]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(domestics) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. Domestic political activities, events, and situations happen or exist within one particular country. ...over 100 domestic flights a day to 15 UK destinations. ...sales in the domestic market. ? foreign, international ADJ: usu ADJ n see also gross domestic product • domestically Opportunities will improve as the company expands domestically and internationally... ADV: ADV after v, ADV -ed/adj, ADV with cl 2. Domestic duties and activities are concerned with the running of a home and family. ...a plan for sharing domestic chores. = household ADJ: ADJ n 3. Domestic items and services are intended to be used in people's homes rather than in factories or offices. ...domestic appliances. = household ? industrial ADJ: ADJ n 4. A domestic situation or atmosphere is one which involves a family and their home. It was a scene of such domestic bliss... ADJ: usu ADJ n 5. A domestic animal is one that is not wild and is kept either on a farm to produce food or in someone's home as a pet. ...a domestic cat. ? wild ADJ 6. A domestic, a domestic help, or a domestic worker is a person who is paid to come to help with the work that has to be done in a house such as the cleaning, washing, and ironing. N-COUNT

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. a. 1. Home, family, household, pertaining to home or the family. 2. Fond of home, retiring, retired. 3. Intestine, internal, home (in opposition to foreign). 4. Tame, domesticated, not wild. II. n. Servant, house-servant.

Moby Thesaurus

anchoritic, autochthonous, cloistered, domal, domestic servant, domesticated, domiciliary, drudge, eremitic, family, help, hermitic, hermitish, hired help, home, household, housekeeper, indigenous, inland, internal, intestine, manorial, mansional, menial, municipal, national, native, palatial, private, recluse, residential, residentiary, scullion, sequestered, servant, servitor, shut in, shut up, slavey, stay-at-home, steward, subdued, submissive, tame, turnspit