Native \Na"tive\ (n[=a]"t[i^]v), a. [F. natif, L. nativus, fr.
nasci, p. p. natus. See Nation, and cf.
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Domestic \Do*mes"tic\, n.
1. One who lives in the family of an other, as hired
household assistant; a house servant.
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The master labors and leads an anxious life, to
secure plenty and ease to the domestic. --V. Knox.
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2. pl. (Com.) Articles of home manufacture, especially cotton
goods. [U. S.]
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Domestic \Do*mes"tic\, a. [L. domesticus, fr. domus use: cf. F.
domestique. See 1st Dome.]
1. Of or pertaining to one's house or home, or one's
household or family; relating to home life; as, domestic
concerns, life, duties, cares, happiness, worship,
servants.
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His fortitude is the more extraordinary, because his
domestic feelings were unusually strong. --Macaulay.
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4. Of or pertaining to a nation considered as a family or
home, or to one's own country; intestine; not foreign; as,
foreign wars and domestic dissensions. --Shak.
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3. Remaining much at home; devoted to home duties or
pleasures; as, a domestic man or woman.
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4. Living in or near the habitations of man; domesticated;
tame as distinguished from wild; as, domestic animals.
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5. Made in one's own house, nation, or country; as, domestic
manufactures, wines, etc.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
domestic
adj 1: of concern to or concerning the internal affairs of a
nation; "domestic issues such as tax rate and highway
construction" [ant: foreign]
2: of or relating to the home; "domestic servant"; "domestic
science"
3: 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" [ant: undomestic]
4: converted or adapted to domestic use; "domestic animals";
"domesticated plants like maize" [syn: domesticated]
5: produced in a particular country; "domestic wine"; "domestic
oil"
n : a household servant [syn: domestic help, house servant]
WordNet (r) 2.0
45 Moby Thesaurus words for "domestic":
anchoritic, autochthonous, cloistered, domal, domestic servant,
domesticated, domiciliary, drudge, eremitic, family, help,
hermitic, hermitish, hired help, home, household, housekeeper,
indigenous, inland, internal, intestine, manorial, mansional,
menial, municipal, national, native, palatial, private, recluse,
residential, residentiary, scullion, sequestered, servant,
servitor, shut in, shut up, slavey, stay-at-home, steward, subdued,
submissive, tame, turnspit
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
DOMESTICS. Those who reside in the same house with the master they serve the
term does not extend to workmen or laborers employed out of doors. 5 Binn.
R. 167; Merl. Rep. h.t. The Act of Congress of April 30, 1790, s. 25, uses
the word domestic in this sense.
2. Formerly, this word was used to designate those who resided in the
house of another, however exalted their station, and who performed services
for him. Voltaire, in writing to the French queen, in 1748, says) " Deign to
consider, madam, that I am one of the domestics of the king, and
consequently yours, lily companions, the gentlemen of the king," &c.
3. Librarians, secretaries, and persons in such honorable employments,
would not probably be considered domestics, although they might reside in
the house of their respective employers.
4. Pothier, to point out the distinction between a domestic and a
servant, gives the following example: A literary man who lives and lodges
with you, solely to be your companion, that you may profit by his
conversation and learning, is your domestic; for all who live in the same
house and eat at the same table with the owner of the house, are his
domestics, but they are not servants. On the contrary, your Valet de,
chambre, to whom you pay wages, and who sleeps out of your house, is not,
properly speaking, your domestic, but your servant. Poth. Proc. Cr. sect. 2,
art. 5, Sec. 5; Poth. Ob. 710, 828; 9 Toull. n. 314; H. De Pansey, Des
Justices de Paix, c. 30, n. 1. Vide Operative; Servant.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
domestic help, domesticated, house servant
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