domestic

Universal Words adjective, noun adjective 1 [usuallybeforenoun] of or inside a particular country; not foreign or international: domestic affairs / politics * domestic flights (= to and from places within a country) * Output consists of both exports and sales on the domestic market. 2 [onlybeforenoun] used in the home; connected with the home or family: domestic appliances * domestic tasks / chores * the growing problem of domestic violence (= violence between members of the same family) * domestic service (= the work of a servant in a large house) * domestic help (= help with the work in a house; the person or people who do this work) 3 liking home life; enjoying or good at cooking, cleaning the house, etc: I'm not a very domestic sort of person. 4 (of animals) kept on farms or as pets; not wild domestically adverb: domestically produced goods noun 1 (also domestic help, domestic worker) a servant who works in sb's house, doing the cleaning and other jobs 2 (informal) a fight between two members of the same family: The police were called to sort out a domestic.