1. Of or relating to the home
   "domestic servant"; "domestic science"
    
2. Of concern to or concerning the internal affairs of a nation
   "domestic issues such as tax rate and highway construction";
   - inland
    
3. Of or involving the home or family
   "they share the domestic chores"; "everything sounded very peaceful and domestic"; "an author of blood-and-thunder novels yet quite domestic in his taste"; "domestic worries"; "domestic happiness"
    
4. Produced in a particular country
   "domestic wine"; "domestic oil"
    
5. Converted or adapted to domestic use
   "domestic animals";
   - domesticated

1. A servant who is paid to perform menial tasks around the household
   "They hired domestic help to assist with cleaning and cooking";
   - domestic help, house servant
    
2. [Brit, informal] A domestic dispute, esp. involving a loud argument or violence
   "The police were called to respond to a domestic at the neighbour's house"

Derived forms: domestics

See also: domesticated, domesticity, home, home-loving, home-style, housewifely, husbandly, interior, internal, municipal, national, native, tame, tamed

Type of: retainer, servant

Antonym: foreign, undomestic

Encyclopedia: Domestic, Light and Cold