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Domestic   /dəmˈɛstɪk/   Listen
Domestic

adjective
1.
Of concern to or concerning the internal affairs of a nation.
2.
Of or relating to the home.  "Domestic science"
3.
Of or involving the home or family.  "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"
4.
Converted or adapted to domestic use.  Synonym: domesticated.  "Domesticated plants like maize"
5.
Produced in a particular country.  "Domestic oil"
noun
1.
A servant who is paid to perform menial tasks around the household.  Synonyms: domestic help, house servant.



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"Domestic" Quotes from Famous Books



... points of view, and with a profound insight into the weak sides of character and manners, in all their tendencies, combinations, and contrasts. There is not a single picture of his containing a representation of mere pictorial or domestic scenery." His object is not so much "to hold the mirror up to nature," as "to show vice her own feature, scorn her own image." "Folly is there seen at the height—the moon is at the full—it is the very error of the time. There is a perpetual error ...
— English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. - How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. • Graham Everitt

... education emphasizes personal purity, purity of the family life and the sacredness of the marriage relation. Its whole trend and effect is upward. Its genius is moral, spiritual, industrial, domestic, social and individual elevation. It creates a hunger and thirst for higher and better things. It is the mountain summit from whose height one gets a broader vision, a clearer view of the possibilities and demands ...
— The Choctaw Freedmen - and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy • Robert Elliott Flickinger

... that you would be a much greater source of embarrassment than of assistance to me," he said gravely. "This is essentially not a woman's work. I believe that women are sometimes employed in the detection of what we may call domestic crimes, but this is ...
— Colonel Thorndyke's Secret • G. A. Henty

... a slight feeling of despondency in my heart when I first went to look out of this window; but when I saw these birds, and witnessed the scene of faithful love and domestic industry and happiness set forth by these little creatures, the spirit of complaint was rebuked within me, and I learned a new lesson of serene trust and assurance that all were cared for by the ...
— What the Animals Do and Say • Eliza Lee Follen

... political situation at home and abroad; but he was now called upon to meet a trouble outside the line of duty, and to face attacks from within, which, ideally speaking, ought never to have existed, but which, in view of our very fallible humanity, were certain to come sooner or later. Much domestic malice Washington was destined to encounter in the later years of political strife, but this was the only instance in his military career where enmity came to overt action and open speech. The first and the last of its kind, ...
— George Washington, Vol. I • Henry Cabot Lodge


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