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Domestic

adjective

Of concern to or concerning the internal affairs of a nation.

Of or relating to the home. "Domestic science"

Of or involving the home or family. "Domestic happiness" , "They share the domestic chores" , "Everything sounded very peaceful and domestic" , "An author of blood-and-thunder novels yet quite domestic in his taste"

Converted or adapted to domestic use. Synonym: domesticated. "Domesticated plants like maize"

Produced in a particular country. "Domestic oil"

noun

A servant who is paid to perform menial tasks around the household. Synonyms: domestic help, house servant.

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"Domestic" Quotes from Famous Books

... perhaps attempt to talk to the Kaiser as he had heard her the other night talk to the President. Would she consent to discontinue relations with her family, or would she wish still to borrow plastic relief from that domestic background? That her family was so impossible was to a certain extent an advantage; for if they had been a little better the question of a rupture would be less easy. He turned over these questions in spite of his security, or perhaps indeed because of it. The security ...

— Pandora • Henry James

... that I had intruded on some scene of domestic unhappiness which would be dissipated in an hour. So, hiding my embarrassment, I turned to the door, intimating that I would seek some other lodging for the night, and return on the morrow, when I hoped my friends would be in fitter mood ...

— Tales of Destiny • Edmund Mitchell

... consultation with the Secretary of State to deal with foreign Governments at least up to the last moment and final consent of the Senate has made it possible for the United States to preserve a fairly uniform foreign policy. For despite the repeated changes of administration and of domestic policies the general foreign policy has been closely modeled upon the expedient course of absolute neutrality laid down by Washington. Were it a practical requirement of the Constitution that all foreign correspondence ...

— Neutral Rights and Obligations in the Anglo-Boer War • Robert Granville Campbell

... of evil, glided silently about the kingdom, creeping into the closest family circles, seizing everywhere on its helpless victims. The nearest and dearest relationships of life were no longer the safe guardians of the domestic hearth. The man who to-day appeared in the glow of health dropped to-morrow and died the next day. No skill of the physician was able to save him, or to detect the true cause of his death, attributing it usually to the false appearances ...

— The Golden Dog - Le Chien d'Or • William Kirby

... encouraged me to much detail: I spoke my high and constant veneration for my royal mistress, her merits, her virtues, her condescension, and her even peculiar kindness towards me. But I owned the species of life distasteful to me; I was lost to all private comfort, dead to all domestic endearment; I was worn with want of rest, and fatigued with laborious watchfulness and attendance. My time was devoted to official duties; and all that in life was dearest to me—my friends, my chosen society, my best affections—lived ...

— The Diary and Letters of Madam D'Arblay Volume 2 • Madame D'Arblay

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