Definitions for domestic

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domestic do·mes·tic

Spelling: [duh-mes-tik]

IPA: /dəˈmɛs tɪk/

Domestic is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 393 anagrams from letters in domestic (cdeimost).

Definitions for domestic

noun

1. a hired household servant.
2. something produced or manufactured in one's own country.
3. domestics, household items made of cloth, as sheets, towels, and tablecloths.

adjective

1. of or relating to the home, the household, household affairs, or the family:
2. devoted to home life or household affairs.
3. no longer wild; tame; domesticated:
4. of or relating to one's own or a particular country as apart from other countries:
5. indigenous to or produced or made within one's own country; not foreign; native:

Origin of domestic

1515-25; Latin domesticus, derivative of domus house (see dome); replacing domestique Middle French

Examples for domestic

Getting men to do their share of care and domestic work is a key overlooked strategy in reducing poverty.

Despite the financial remedy, partial repeal of the screen quota has imperiled the domestic market.

They took an aspiring angel and made a domestic animal of him.

In this view it is desirable to be introduced into the privacies of domestic life.

Indeed, Lion Air, with 45 percent of the domestic Indonesian airline market, has swallowed the Fernandes formula whole.

But relative to centuries past, America is a marvel of domestic tranquility.

"He certainly was not what is called a domestic character," said Aunt Jane.

There is no longer a clear division between what is foreign and what is domestic.

And after all, what happiness is there equal to domestic happiness?

Supported by Washington, the domestic quota was cut from 90 days to 30.