domestic - Definition | Dictionary definition of domestic

Definition of domestic

of concern to or concerning the internal affairs of a nation

"domestic issues such as tax rate and highway construction"

Synonyms:: national
limited to or in the interests of a particular nation; home, interior, internal
inside the country; municipal
of or relating to the government of a municipality

Antonyms:: foreign
of concern to or concerning the affairs of other nations (other than your own); international
concerning or belonging to all or at least two or more nations; abroad, overseas
in a foreign country; external, outside
from or between other countries; show more antonyms...

of or relating to the home

"domestic servant"

"domestic science"

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"

Synonyms:: domesticated
accustomed to home life; home-loving
devoted to home duties and pleasures; home-style
as if in the home; housewifely
related or suited to a housewife; husbandly
related to or suited to a husband

Antonyms:: undomestic
not domestic or related to home; undomesticated
unaccustomed to home life; show more antonyms...

converted or adapted to domestic use

"domestic animals"

"domesticated plants like maize"

Synonyms:: domesticated; tame, tamed
brought from wildness into a domesticated state

produced in a particular country

"domestic wine"

"domestic oil"

Synonyms:: native
characteristic of or existing by virtue of geographic origin

a servant who is paid to perform menial tasks around the household

Types:: show 9 types...; hide 9 types...; 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; amah, housemaid, maid, maidservant
a female domestic; chambermaid, fille de chambre
a maid who is employed to clean and care for bedrooms (now primarily in hotels); handmaid, handmaiden
a personal maid or female attendant; lady's maid
a maid who is a lady's personal attendant; parlormaid, parlourmaid
a maid in a private home whose duties are to care for the parlor and the table and to answer the door; skivvy, slavey
a female domestic servant who does all kinds of menial work