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DOMESTIC
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A servant who is paid to perform menial tasks around the household
Synonyms:
domestic; domestic help; house servant
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("domestic" is a kind of...):
retainer; servant (a person working in the service of another (especially in the household))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "domestic"):
ayah ((in India) a native nursemaid who looks after children)
home help (a person hired to help in another's home (especially one employed by a local authority to help the infirm with domestic work))
housekeeper (a servant who is employed to perform domestic task in a household)
amah; housemaid; maid; maidservant (a female domestic)
skivvy; slavey (a female domestic servant who does all kinds of menial work)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Produced in a particular country
Example:
domestic oil
Classified under:
Similar:
native (characteristic of or existing by virtue of geographic origin)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Of concern to or concerning the internal affairs of a nation
Example:
domestic issues such as tax rate and highway construction
Classified under:
Similar:
municipal (of or relating to the government of a municipality)
home; interior; internal; national (inside the country)
Also:
national (limited to or in the interests of a particular nation)
Antonym:
foreign (of concern to or concerning the affairs of other nations (other than your own))
Sense 3
Meaning:
Of or involving the home or family
Example:
an author of blood-and-thunder novels yet quite domestic in his taste
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
domesticated (accustomed to home life)
home-loving (devoted to home duties and pleasures)
home-style (as if in the home)
housewifely (related or suited to a housewife)
husbandly (related to or suited to a husband)
Attribute:
domesticity (the quality of being domestic or domesticated)
Antonym:
undomestic (not domestic or related to home)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Converted or adapted to domestic use
Example:
domesticated plants like maize
Synonyms:
domestic; domesticated
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
tame; tamed (brought from wildness into a domesticated state)
Derivation:
domesticity (the quality of being domestic or domesticated)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Of or relating to the home
Example:
domestic science
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
home (housing that someone is living in)
Derivation:
domesticity (domestic activities or life)
Context examples:
The domestic short-hair cat has a flexible, compact body and long tail that enhances balance, as well as keen eyesight and retractable claws.
(Domestic Short Hair Cat, NCI Thesaurus)
The common domestic fowl, Gallus gallus.
(Chicken, NCI Thesaurus)
Taxonomic family which includes the domestic dog, wolves and foxes.
(Canidae, NCI Thesaurus)
Taxonomic family which includes domestic and wild cats such as lions and tigers.
(Felidae, NCI Thesaurus)
E. gallinarum has been isolated from the gastrointestinal tract of domestic fowl and is pathogenic in humans with some resistance to vancomycin.
(Enterococcus gallinarum, NCI Thesaurus)
It is pathogenic in a variety of organisms including domestic swine and humans, causing both cutaneous and septicemic infections and the disease swine erysipelas.
(Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae, NCI Thesaurus)
An older breed of American domestic pig, the Duroc breed is of medium length with a muscular, large-framed body.
(Duroc Pig, NCI Thesaurus)
It is hard to know exactly how common domestic violence is, because people often don't report it.
(Domestic Violence, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
A retro-transcribing virus, of the genus Alpharetrovirus and the family Retroviridae, that causes anemia and malignant disease in wild and domestic fowl.
(Avian Myeloblastosis Virus, NCI Thesaurus)
A. pyogenes is a commensal organism of the mucous membranes of domestic animals and may become pathogenic in cases of trauma and immunosuppression.
(Arcanobacterium pyogenes, NCI Thesaurus)
