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- pronunciation:
- d
me
stihk
- features:
- Word History, Word Explorer, Word Parts
| part of speech: |
adjective |
| definition 1: |
of or related to the home or family.
After work, he enjoys a nice, quiet domestic life.- synonyms:
- household
- similar words:
- home, residential
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| definition 2: |
living with and serving humans instead of living in the wild.
Cows are domestic animals.- synonyms:
- tame
- antonyms:
- wild
- similar words:
- gentle
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| definition 3: |
of the country one is in; not imported.
He prefers domestic cars.- synonyms:
- indigenous
- antonyms:
- alien, foreign, imported, international
- similar words:
- internal, national
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| related words: |
native, tame |
| derivation: |
domestically (adv.) |
Domestic comes from domus, the Latin word for "house." It was first used to mean "of one's own country" in 1545. The English word dome also comes from domus.
The word domestic
contains the following parts:
dom2
Latin
root
that means house
  Example words:
-ic
Latin and Greek
adjective-forming suffix
that means like, pertaining to
More about this word part:
The suffix -ic
attaches to roots and words of Greek or Latin origin to form adjectives. A few words ending in -ic
(magic
, critic
, music
) were adjectives that became nouns in Greek before they entered English, also as nouns.
Example words:
aerobic, antibiotic, aquatic, civic, comic, critic, democratic, domestic, dramatic, eccentric, economic, erratic, fantastic, geometric, magic, microscopic, music, pathetic, periodic, physical, physics, sonic, sympathetic
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