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Definition of Domestic
Do`mes´tic | a. | 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. | | 3. | Remaining much at home; devoted to home duties or pleasures; as, a domestic man or woman. | | 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. | | 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. | | n. | 1. | One who lives in the family of an other, as hired household assistant; a house servant. | | 2. | (Com.) Articles of home manufacture, especially cotton goods. |
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anchoritic, autochthonous, cloistered, domal, domestic servant, domesticated, domiciliary, drudge, eremitic, help, hermitic, hermitish, hired help, home, housekeeper, indigenous, inland, internal, intestine, manorial, mansional, menial, municipal, national, palatial, private, recluse, residential, residentiary, scullion, sequestered, servitor, shut in, shut up, slavey, stay-at-home, steward, subdued, submissive, turnspit
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