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
Part of speech: 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.
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Is domestic a noun, verb, or something else?
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