How do you pronounce domestic?

The recorded pronunciation is /dəˈmɛs.tɪk/.

domestic

/dəˈmɛs.tɪk/

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: 4.69 in modern English

Syllables: do-mes-tic
IPA: /dəˈmɛs.tɪk/

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Meaning

adj

Of or relating to the home.

adj

Of or relating to activities normally associated with the home, wherever they actually occur.

adj

Kept by someone, for example as a farm animal or a pet.

adj

Internal to a specific country.

adj

Tending to stay at home; not outgoing.

noun

A maid or household servant.

noun

A domestic dispute, whether verbal or violent.

Colloquial; Informal

Example Sentences

"domestic violence; domestic hot water"
"The relationship between a hairstylist and a client can be far more than simply somebody to cut and shape hair, which is why Tennessee is the latest state to require cosmetologists to complete training on how to recognize and respond to signs of domestic abuse."
"It shall be the duty of any owner or person in charge of any domestic animal or animals."
"domestic terrorism"
"The proportion of international economic flows relative to domestic ones."
"Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month."

Etymology

From Middle French domestique, from Latin domesticus, from domus (“house, home”).

Word Breakdown

Root: *dem-

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /dəˈmɛs.tɪk/
British English: /dəˈmɛs.tɪk/

Usage

Inflected Forms

more domestic (comparative) most domestic (superlative) domestick (alternative, obsolete) domestics (plural)

Derived Forms

antidomestic domesticable domestically domesticise domesticize domicide electrodomestic extradomestic interdomestic intermestic intradomestic nondomestic

Phrases

domestic appliance domestic arts domestic blindness domestic cat domestic debt domestic dependent nation domestic dispute domestic dog

Frequently Paired Words

domesticate domesticated domestication domesticity

Synonyms

bourgeois civilized comfortable domiciliary domesticated intranational domestic help house servant

Antonyms

adventurous social wild feral foreign global

Rhymes With

majestic avestic