Domestic — Defs

01 a. 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, h…

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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.
2.
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.
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.

02 n. One who lives in the family of an other, as hired household assistant; a house servant.

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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.
Articles of home manufacture, especially cotton goods.(Com.) [U. S.]