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say it: duh-MEH-stik
domestic is an adjective and noun meaning "of concern to or concerning the internal affairs of a nation". It carries 6 recorded senses.
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”
converted or adapted to domestic use
“domestic animals”
“domesticated plants like maize”
a servant who is paid to perform menial tasks around the household
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for domestic come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.