domestication

Other forms of domestication

plural

domestications·

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.

Questions about domestication

What does domestication mean?

domestication means "adaptation to intimate association with human beings". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in domestication?

domestication has 5 syllables: do-mes-ti-ca-tion. The stress falls on "ca". In IPA it is /dəˌmɛstəˈkeɪʃən/.

What is another word for domestication?

Close synonyms include tameness. 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 domestication a common word?

domestication is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with domestication?

104 words rhyme with domestication. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.