domestic cat

Questions about domestic cat

What does domestic cat mean?

domestic cat means "any domesticated member of the genus Felis".

What is another word for domestic cat?

Close synonyms include house cat, Felis domesticus, Felis catus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is domestic cat a common word?

domestic cat is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.