domestic

CEFRC1

/dəˈmɛs.tɪk/

adjective

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In plain English

01
adjective
Relating to the home, family, or country itself.
02
adjective
Tame and kept by people rather than wild.

Examples

Most domestic freezers operate at below −18°C.
Smoking is now banned on all domestic plane flights.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 5

Also pronounced

/-stək/
/dəˈmes.tɪk/

Deep Dive

adjective

Extra meanings

Kept by someone, for example as a farm animal or a pet.
Of or relating to the home.
Of or relating to activities normally associated with the home, wherever they actually occur.

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In context

We consumers must buy more domestic products.
domestic violence; domestic hot water
domestic terrorism

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It shall be the duty of any owner or person in charge of any domestic animal or animals.
1890, US Bureau of Animal Industry, Annual report v 6/7, 1889/90
The relationship between a hairstylist and a client can be far more than simply somebody to cut and shape hair, which is why Tennessee is the latest state to require cosmetologists to complete training on how to recognize and respond to signs of domestic abuse.
2022 January 5, Kaanita Iyer, “Tennessee is the latest state to require hairstylists to complete domestic violence training”, in CNN
The proportion of international economic flows relative to domestic ones.
1996, Robert O. Keohane, Helen V. Milner, Internationalization and Domestic Politics
Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847, archived from the original on 07 Aug 2020
And amid all the finger-pointing and pushing to overcome the political fallout of the shooting, neither Mr. Trump or any of his advisers have explained why they falsely said the man the agents killed, Alex Pretti, had been brandishing a gun before he was shot, or why administration officials labeled him as a domestic terrorist before any investigation.
2026 January 28, Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Hamed Aleaziz, “Shooting Aftermath Leaves Homeland Security Department in Turmoil”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC

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Origin

adjective

From Middle French domestique, from Latin domesticus, from domus (“house, home”).

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adjective

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adjective

The blank cat stayed indoors while the stray roamed outside.