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DOMESTIC

domestic - a 
of or relating to the home; "domestic servant"; "domestic science" 
of or involving the home or family; "domestic worries"; "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" 

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Synonyms

familial, household, homelike, homely, homey (also homy), residential

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Examples

“This is just a domestic disturbance.”

“So far, wee Maria stood head and shoulders over any other domestic helper Bird Song had employed.”

“Tell him I locked down all missile strikes on domestic territory.”

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Etymology

early 15c., "prepared or made in the house," from Old French domestique (14c.) and directly from Latin domesticus "belonging to the household," from domus "house," from PIE *dom-o- "house," from root *dem- "house, household."

From 1610s as "relating to or belonging to the home or household affairs." From 1650s as "attached to home, devoted to home life." Meaning "pertaining to a nation (considered as a family), internal to one's country" is from 1540s. Of animals, "tame, living under the care of humans," from 1610s. Related: Domestically.

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