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Definition of Domestic |
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Domestic
Of or pertaining to one's house or home, or one's household or family; relating to home life; as, domestic concerns, life, duties, cares, happiness, worship, servants. Of or pertaining to a nation considered as a family or home, or to one's own country; intestine; not foreign; as, foreign wars and domestic dissensions. Remaining much at home; devoted to home duties or pleasures; as, a domestic man or woman. Living in or near the habitations of man; domesticated; tame as distinguished from wild; as, domestic animals. Made in one's own house, nation, or country; as, domestic manufactures, wines, etc. One who lives in the family of an other, as hired household assistant; a house servant. Articles of home manufacture, especially cotton goods. Related Definitions: An, And, As, Assistant, At, Considered, Cotton, Country, Devoted, Distinguished, Domestic, Domesticated, Duties, Especially, Family, Foreign, From, Goods, Happiness, Hired, Home, House, Household, In, Intestine, Life, Lives, Living, Made, Man, Manufacture, Much, Nation, Near, Not, Of, One, Or, Other, Own, Pertaining, Relating, Remaining, Servant, Tame, The, To, Who, Wild, Woman, Worship |
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Domestic Quotations
When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized. Ayn Rand Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us. John F. Kennedy I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported. Mae West Personally, I like two types of men - domestic and foreign. Mae West As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children. John Adams Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church. Pope John Paul II Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table. Alfred Hitchcock Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change. Robert Mugabe The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth. Germaine Greer It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness. George Santayana |
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Domestic Translations
domestic in Afrikaans is binnelands, gesins-, inheems domestic in Dutch is inheems, inlands, binnenlands domestic in French is domestique domestic in Italian is nazionale domestic in Latin is domesticus domestic in Norwegian is innenriks domestic in Swedish is inrikes, tam |
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