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domestic

/dəˈmɛs.tɪk/noun, adjective3 syllables

Domestic means: of concern to or concerning the internal affairs of a nation.

Synonyms for domestic20

noun, as in a servant who is paid to perform menial tasks around the household

domestic help, house servant

adjective, as in of concern to or concerning the internal affairs of a nation

home, interior, internal, national, municipal

adjective, as in of or involving the home or family

domesticated, home-loving, home-style, housewifely, husbandly

adjective, as in converted or adapted to domestic use

domesticated, tame, tamed

adjective, as in produced in a particular country

native

also used for domestic

bourgeois, civilized, comfortable, domiciliary, intranational

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Opposites of domestic

foreign, undomestic

What does domestic mean?6

adjective

1

of concern to or concerning the internal affairs of a nation“domestic issues such as tax rate and highway construction”

2

of or involving the home or family“domestic worries”

3

converted or adapted to domestic use“domestic animals”

4

produced in a particular country“domestic wine”

5

of or relating to the home“domestic servant”

noun

1

a servant who is paid to perform menial tasks around the household

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with domestic?1

three syllables

majestic
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Domestic in a sentence

  • We serve wine, mixed drinks, and both domestic and imported beers.CK
  • This butter is domestic, but it is in no way inferior to foreign butter.CK
  • Having said 'domestic wine', anything bottled domestically is deemed to be domestic wine.unknown
  • Smoking is now prohibited on all domestic flights.CK
  • Domestic mail was delivered four times a day._undertoad
  • You'll find domestic articles on the third floor.CM
  • Neither wild nor domestic animals appear to have any premonition of death.gauravjiii
  • A man was stabbed in the torso overnight during a domestic dispute.patgfisher

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Forms of domestic

as a noun

plural
domestics