domestic

Academic Word List, sublist 4.

About 48.05 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Of or relating to the home.
2. adjective Of or relating to activities normally associated with the home, wherever they actually occur.

   domestic violence; domestic hot water

3. adjective Kept by someone, for example as a farm animal or a pet.
4. adjective Internal to a specific country.

   domestic terrorism

5. adjective Tending to stay at home; not outgoing.
6. noun A maid or household servant.
7. noun A domestic dispute, whether verbal or violent.

Similar words

home native household domesticated tame tamed housewifely husbandly national municipal

Often followed by

and violence animals product market life production economy affairs policy

Word family

domestically domesticate domesticated domesticating domestics