Domestic generally means relating to someone's family, home, or home country. Domestic work is work done in the home––a domestic is someone who works in a home, such as a nanny or a maid.
Of or pertaining to one's house or home, or one's household or family; relating to home life;
Noun
a household servant
Adjective S.
produced in a particular country; "domestic wine"; "domestic oil"
Adjective
of concern to or concerning the internal affairs of a nation; "domestic issues such as tax rate and highway construction"
Adjective
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"
Adjective S.
converted or adapted to domestic use; "domestic animals"; "domesticated plants like maize"
Adjective
of or relating to the home; "domestic servant"; "domestic science"
a.
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.
a.
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.
a.
Remaining much at home; devoted to home duties or
pleasures; as, a domestic man or woman.
a.
Living in or near the habitations of man; domesticated;
tame as distinguished from wild; as, domestic animals.
a.
Made in one's own house, nation, or country; as, domestic
manufactures, wines, etc.
n.
One who lives in the family of an other, as hired
household assistant; a house servant.
n.
Articles of home manufacture, especially cotton goods.
Domestic
His fortitude is the more extraordinary, because his domestic feelings were unusually strong.4.
Domestic
The master labors and leads an anxious life, to secure plenty and ease to the domestic.2.
Domestical
Our private and domestical matter.
Of or pertaining to one's house or home, or one's household or family; relating to home life;
One who lives in the family of an other, as hired household assistant; a house servant.
Usage Examples
Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change.
Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time.
By cutting critical domestic programs such as education, health, environmental protection, and veterans' services, this budget reveals misplaced priorities.
I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no experience of fatherhood. I had no example of marital bliss or the family unit.
I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.
By encouraging conservation, increasing investments in clean, renewable sources of energy, and promoting increased domestic production of oil and gas, we can build a more secure future for our country.
As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States.
I visited those friends who'd just had a baby, and she was washing dishes and he was cleaning the house, and I burst with happiness. And in their minds, they were in this terrible domestic rut.
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Other Usage ExamplesHealth care for all Americans is the most pressing domestic issue today. It's far past time for the President and Congress to deliver health care to everyone.
Domestic discretionary spending on education and health care and the environment has been growing at 2 to 3 percent a year. He says we have to rein it in, but he ignores the spending category that is the big spike in the budget.
I just think it would be unrealistic to suggest we're going to eliminate every last domestic insurgent in Afghanistan. Certainly, the history of the country would indicate that's not a very realistic objective, and I think we have to have realistic objectives.
Affairs of state tend to drive most presidents toward the center on both foreign and domestic policy, no matter where on the political spectrum they begin, and especially so in the areas of intelligence and law enforcement.
And it was back in the mid-1980s, and as I point out in a piece, that was when we are spending about eight percent of our gross domestic product on health care. And even then, we had the impression that so much of the excessive, aggressive medical treatment that took place at the end of life was not only unnecessary but it was cruel.
I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.
Domestic travel and tourism-related spending has reached $1 trillion a year.
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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