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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Domestic \Do*mes"tic\, a. [L. domesticus, fr domus use: cf F. domestique See 1st {Dome}.] 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. His fortitude is the more extraordinary, because his domestic feelings were unusually strong. --Macaulay. 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. --Shak. 3. Remaining much at home; devoted to home duties or pleasures; as a domestic man or woman. 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 From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Domestic \Do*mes"tic\, n. 1. One who lives in the family of an other as hired household assistant; a house servant. The master labors and leads an anxious life, to secure plenty and ease to the domestic. --V. Knox. 2. pl (Com.) Articles of home manufacture, especially cotton goods. [U. S.] From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: domestic adj 1: of concern to or concerning the internal affairs of a nation; "domestic issues such as tax rate and highway construction" [ant: {foreign}] 2: of or relating to the home; "domestic servant"; "domestic science" 3: 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" [ant: {undomestic}] 4: converted or adapted to domestic use "domestic animals"; "domesticated plants like maize" [syn: {domesticated}] 5: produced in a particular country; "domestic wine"; "domestic oil" n : a household servant [syn: {domestic help}, {house servant}]
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