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do·mes·tic  (d-mstk)
adj.
1. Of or relating to the family or household: domestic chores.
2. Fond of home life and household affairs.
3. Tame or domesticated. Used of animals.
4. Of or relating to a country's internal affairs: domestic issues such as tax rates and highway construction.
5. Produced in or indigenous to a particular country: domestic oil; domestic wine.
n.
1. A household servant.
2.
a. Cotton cloth.
b. Household linens. Often used in the plural.
3. A product or substance discovered in, developed in, or exported from a particular country.

[Middle English, from Old French domestique, from Latin domesticus, from domus, house; see dem- in Indo-European roots.]

do·mesti·cal·ly adv.

domestic [dəˈmɛstɪk]
adj
1. of or involving the home or family
2. enjoying or accustomed to home or family life
3. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) (of an animal) bred or kept by man as a pet or for purposes such as the supply of food
4. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) of, produced in, or involving one's own country or a specific country domestic and foreign affairs
n
1. (Business / Professions) a household servant
2. (Law) Informal (esp in police use) an incident of violence in the home, esp between a man and a woman
[from Old French domestique, from Latin domesticus belonging to the house, from domus house]
domestically  adv
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.domesticdomestic - a servant who is paid to perform menial tasks around the household
ayah - (in India) a native nursemaid who looks after children
home help - a person hired to help in another's home (especially one employed by a local authority to help the infirm with domestic work)
housekeeper - a servant who is employed to perform domestic task in a household
housemaid, maid, maidservant, amah - a female domestic
servant, retainer - a person working in the service of another (especially in the household)
skivvy, slavey - a female domestic servant who does all kinds of menial work
Adj.1.domestic - of concern to or concerning the internal affairs of a nation; "domestic issues such as tax rate and highway construction"
national - limited to or in the interests of a particular nation; "national interests"; "isolationism is a strictly national policy"
foreign - of concern to or concerning the affairs of other nations (other than your own); "foreign trade"; "a foreign office"
2.domestic - of or relating to the home; "domestic servant"; "domestic science"
3.domestic - 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"
undomestic - not domestic or related to home; "had established herself in her career at the price of being so undomestic she didn't even know how to light the oven"
4.domestic - converted or adapted to domestic use; "domestic animals"; "domesticated plants like maize"
tamed, tame - brought from wildness into a domesticated state; "tame animals"; "fields of tame blueberries"
5.domestic - produced in a particular country; "domestic wine"; "domestic oil"
native - characteristic of or existing by virtue of geographic origin; "the native North American sugar maple"; "many native artists studied abroad"

domestic
adjective
1. home, state, national, internal, interior, native, indigenous, not foreign sales in the domestic market
2. household, home, family, private, domiciliary a plan for sharing domestic chores She described their domestic life as 'normal'
3. home-loving, homely, housewifely, stay-at-home, domesticated She was kind and domestic.
noun
servant, help, maid, woman (informal), daily, char (informal), charwoman, daily help, maid-of-all-work She worked for 10 or 15 years as a domestic.
Translations
domestic [dəˈmestɪk]
A. ADJ
1. (= household) [activities, duty, life, animal] → doméstico; [fuel] → de uso doméstico; [harmony, quarrel] → familiar; [violence] → en el hogar
for domestic usepara uso doméstico
she does domestic work for a livingtrabaja como empleada del hogar or empleada doméstica
a scene of domestic blissuna escena de felicidad familiar or doméstica
2. (= home-loving) → casero, hogareño
3. (Econ, Pol) (= internal) [flight, industry, news, economy, politics] → nacional; [market, consumption, policy] → nacional, interior; [affairs, problems] → nacional, interno
B. Ndoméstico/a m/f, empleado/a m/f doméstico/a
C. CPD domestic appliance Naparato m doméstico, aparato m de uso doméstico
domestic help Nempleado/a m/f del hogar, empleado/a m/f doméstico/a
domestic science N (esp Brit) (Scol) → economía f doméstica, hogar m (Sp)
domestic science teacher N (esp Brit) (Scol) → profesor(a) m/f de economía doméstica, profesor(a) m/f de hogar(Sp)
domestic servant Nsirviente/a m/f, doméstico/a m/f
domestic service Nservicio m doméstico
to be in domestic servicetrabajar en el servicio doméstico
domestic staff N (in hospital, institution) → personal m de servicio; (in private household) → servicio m doméstico
domestic worker Nempleado/a m/f doméstico/a

domestic [dəˈmɛstɪk] adj
[policy, affairs] → intérieur(e)
[flight] → intérieur(e)
a domestic flight → un vol intérieur
[news] → national(e)
(= household) → ménager/ère
[duty, happiness] → familial(e)
[animal] → domestique
domestic abuse nviolences fpl domestiques
domestic appliance nappareil m ménager

domestic
adj
(= household)häuslich; the domestic arrangementsdie häusliche Situation; domestic chores or dutiesHausarbeit f; his wife has always taken care of his domestic needsseine Frau hat zu Hause immer alles für ihn gemacht; everything of a domestic naturealles, was den Haushalt angeht; she was never very domestic, she was never a very domestic sort of personsie war nie ein sehr häuslicher Mensch; domestic activities or things take up a lot of timeder Haushalt nimmt viel Zeit in Anspruch; in the interests of domestic harmonyim Interesse des Familienfriedens; domestic blisshäusliches Glück; domestic quarrelEhekrach m; domestic appliancesHaushaltsgeräte pl; for domestic usefür den Hausgebrauch; domestic rubbish (Brit) or garbage (US) → Hausmüll m
(esp Pol, Comm: = within a country) consumption, production, spending, sales, demand etcinländisch, im Inland; currencyinländisch; problemsim Inland; newsaus dem Inland; issues, affairsinnenpolitisch; he was more interested in foreign affairs than in domestic affairser interessierte sich mehr für Außenpolitik als für Innenpolitik
n
(= servant)Hausangestellte(r) mf
(inf: = quarrel) → Ehekrach m

domestic:
domestic cat
nHauskatze f
domestic dog
nHaushund m
domestic economy
n (Pol) → Binnenwirtschaft f
domestic flight
nInlandflug m
domestic fuel
nBrennstoff mfür private Haushalte

domestic:
domestic market
n (Pol, Comm) → Binnenmarkt m
domestic policy, domestic politics
nInnenpolitik f
domestic rates
pl (Brit Econ, Hist) → Kommunalabgaben pl
domestic science
n (esp old Brit Sch) → Hauswirtschaftslehre f; domestic college/teacher (esp old Brit Sch) → Hauswirtschaftsschule f/-lehrer(in) m(f)
domestic servant
nHausangestellte(r) mf
domestic service
nArbeit fals Hausangestellte(r); to be in domesticals Hausangestellte(r) arbeiten
domestic staff
nHauspersonal nt
domestic supply
nHausanschluss m; they had no domestic of watersie hatten keinen Wasseranschluss im Haus
domestic violence
nGewalt fin der Familie; one in ten women is a victim of domesticeine von zehn Frauen ist Opfer häuslicher Gewalt or wird zu Hause misshandelt

domestic [dəˈmɛstɪk]
1. adj
a. (industry, flight) → nazionale; (affairs, policy) → interno/a; (news) → dall'interno
b. (chores, duties, animal) → domestico/a
domestic bliss → le gioie della famiglia
domestic peace → pace in famiglia
to be in domestic service → essere a servizio
domestic servant → domestico/a
2. n (cleaner) → inserviente m/f

domestic [dəˈmɛstɪk]
1. adj
a. (industry, flight) → nazionale; (affairs, policy) → interno/a; (news) → dall'interno
b. (chores, duties, animal) → domestico/a
domestic bliss → le gioie della famiglia
domestic peace → pace in famiglia
to be in domestic service → essere a servizio
domestic servant → domestico/a
2. n (cleaner) → inserviente m/f

domestic
adj domestic [dəˈmestik]
1 of or in the house or home a domestic servant; domestic utensils. huishoudelik بَيْتي، مَنْزِلي домашен domácí huslig; hus-; hjemme- Haus-... οικιακός doméstico kodu-, majapidamis- خانگی koti- de maison בֵּיתִי घरेलू domaći házi mengenai rumah heimilis- domestico, casalingo 家庭の 가정의 namų, naminis mājas-; mājsaimniecības- dalam rumah huishoudelijk hus-, hjemme- domowy doméstico domestic, casnic домашний; бытовой domáci gospodinjski, hišen domaći hus-, hushålls-, hem- เกี่ยวกับบ้าน eve ait, aile hayatı ile ilgili 家裡的 хатній, домашній گھریلو thuộc về trong nhà
2 concerning one's private life or family domestic problems. persoonlike أَهْلي، عائِلي семеен rodinný, soukromý hjemlig; familie- häuslich οικογενειακός, ιδιωτικός doméstico, familiar pere- خانوادگی perhe- familial מִשפַּחתִי घरेलू obiteljski, privatni családi rumah tangga heimilis- domestico 家庭内の 집안의 šeimyninis mājas-; ģimenes- dalam negeri gezins- hjemlig, familie- rodzinny doméstico familial семейный rodinný družinski porodičan familje-, privat เกี่ยวกับครอบครัว ailesel/özel yaşamı ilgilendiren 家庭的 внутрішній ذاتی thuộc riêng tư
3 (of animals) tame and living with or used by people. huis داجِن، أَليف питомен domácí, ochočený tam; tæmmet Haus-... κατοικίδιος (για ζώο) doméstico kodu- اهلی؛ خانگی koti- domestique חָיַת בָּיִת पालतू जानवर domaće životinje házi(állat) piaraan taminn, heimilis- domestico 飼われている 사람에게 길들여진 naminis (par dzīvniekiem) māj- bela jinak tam, huis- tam-, hus- domowy doméstico domestic домашний domáci domač domaći tam[] เชื่อง evcil 馴養的 свійський پالتو gia súc
4 not foreign the Government's domestic policy. binnelands مَحَلِّي، داخِلي вътрешен domácí, tuzemský indenrigs-; indenlands Innen-... εσωτερικός nacional sise-, kodumaine بومی؛ داخلی kotimainen intérieur מְקוֹמִי देशी, गृह मामले unutarnji hazai, belföldi dalam negeri innanríkis- nazionale, interno 国内の 자국의, 국내의 vidaus, krašto, vietinis iekšzemes-; iekšējais; iekš- dalam negeri binnenlands innenriks-, innenlandsk wewnętrzny, krajowy nacional intern внутренний vnútorný notranji unutrašnji inrikes, inhemsk ภายในประเทศ içişleriyle ilgili 國內的 вітчизняний داخلی nội địa 内的
adj doˈmesticated [-keitid]
1 (of animals) accustomed to living near and being used by people Cows and sheep have been domesticated for many thousands of years. makgemaak مُدَجَّن опитомен zdomácnělý tam; tæmmet gezähmt εξημερωμένος (για ζώο) domesticado kodustatud اهلی؛ خانگی kesytetty domestiqué מְבוּיָת पालतू udomaćene megszelídített dipiara taminn addomesticato 飼い慣らされた 길들여진 prijaukintas (par dzīvnieku) pieradināts; piejaucēts ternak tam tam, temmet oswojony, udomowiony domesticado domes­ticit одомашненный zdomácnený udomačen pripitomiti tam, domesticerad ทำให้เชื่อง; ที่เป็นสัตว์เลี้ยง evcilleştirilmiş 馴化的 приручений; одомашнений گھر سے مانوس جانور đã được thuần dưỡng
2 good at doing jobs associated with running a house My husband has become very domesticated since I've been ill. huishoudelik بارِع في الأعْمال البَيتِيَه свикнал да се занимава с домашната работа domácký huslig an das häusliche Leben gewöhnt νοικοκύρης, νοικοκυρεμένος casero, doméstico osav majapidamistöödes اهل خانه و زندگی؛ خانه گرای taloustöitä osaava d'intérieur “בָּלבּוּסט” पारिवारिक जीवन का प्रेमी biti dobar u kućanskim poslovima házias rajin vanur húsverkum (esperto nelle faccende domestiche) 家事になじんだ 가장적이 된 pripratęs prie namų ruošos mājas darbus protošs gemar melakukan kerja rumah huiselijk huslig chętny do prac domowych caseiro casnic хозяйственный domácky družinski veš u kućnim poslovima huslig ซึ่งดูแลบ้านได้ดี evcimen 喜做家務的 хазяйський گھریلو کام کاج میں ماہر ہونا làm cho thích công việc gia đình
n doˌmestiˈcation
temming, inburgering تَدْجين опитомяване domestikace tæmning die Häuslichkeit, die Zähmung εξημέρωση domesticación kodustus رام کردن؛ اهلی سازی kesyttäminen domestication בִּיוּת पालतू बनाना udomaćenje megszelídítés penjinakan tamning; aðlögun að fjölskyldulífi eða heimilishaldi addomesticamento 飼い慣らすこと 길들여진 prijaukinimas, pripratinimas prie namų ruošos (dzīvnieka) pieradināšana; piejaucēšana pembelajinakan het temmen tilvenning til hjemlige forhold; temming oswojenie domesticação domesticire одомашнение zdomácnenie udomačenje pripitomljavanje tämjande, domesticering การทำให้เชื่อง; การทำให้เป็นขนบธรรมเนียม; การทำให้เคยชิน evcilleştirme 馴化 любов до сімейного життя; приручення تآلف sự thuần dưỡng
n domesticity [doumeˈstisəti]
(fondness for) home life. huisvas حياةٌ عائِلِيَّه домашен живот rodinný život familieliv; hjemmeliv die Häuslichkeit νοικοκυροσύνη, οικογενειακή ζωή vida casera kodune elu خانه گرای kotielämä vie de famille חָיֵי הַבָּיִת והמשפחה परिवार प्रेम udomaćenost családi élet kehidupan rumah tangga heimilisrækni vita familiare 家庭生活 가정 생활, 가정 적임 šeimyniškumas ģimeniskums; pieķeršanās ģimenei; mājas dzīve kehidupan dirumah huiselijkheid hjemmeliv, huslighet domatorstwo domesticidade viaţa în familie привязанность к семейной жизни rodinný život družinsko življenje porodični život hemliv, hemkärlek ความเป็นอยู่ภายในบ้านและครอบครัว evcimenlik, eve/aileye bağlı 對於家庭生活的愛好,家庭生活 любов до сімейного комфорту گھریلو ہونے کی حالت tính thích cuộc sống gia đình
domestic help
(a person paid to give) assistance with housework etc. huishulp مُساعَدَه مَنْزِلِيَّه домашна помощ pomocnice v domácnosti hjemmehjælp die Haushaltshilfe οικιακή βοηθός servicio doméstico koduabiline, koduabi خدمتکار خانه kotiapu employé/-ée de maison עוֹזֶר/ת בָּית नौकर, दाई kućna pomoćnica segítség pembantu rumah tangga húshjálp domestico お手伝いさん 가정부 namų pagalbininkas/darbininkas palīgs mājas darbos penolong membuat kerja rumah hulp in het huishouden hushjelp, tjener pomoc domowa mulher a dias îngrijitor al gospo­dăriei помощница по дому pomoc(nica) v domácnosti gospodinjska pomočnica pomoć u kući hemhjälp ผู้ช่วยทำงานบ้าน hizmetçi 傭人 домашня робота گھریلو خادم giúp việc nhà 佣人

domestic داخلي domácí indenrigs- häuslich εγχώριος doméstico kotimainen domestique domaći interno 国内の 국내의 binnenlands innenlands krajowy doméstico домашний inhemsk ที่เกี่ยวกับประเทศหนึ่ง ülke içi nội địa 家庭的


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