| 单词 | domestic |
| 释义 | domestic (once / 116 pages) adjn Domestic generally means relating to someone's family, home, or home country. Domestic work is work done in the home––a domestic is someone who works in a home, such as a nanny or a maid. Domestic is also used to refer to products that are produced in your country, or policies and affairs that relate to your country. And domestic animals, such as cats and dogs, are used to living with people. Domestic derives from Middle English, from Old French domestique, from Latin domesticus, from domus "house." WORD FAMILYdomestic: domestically, domesticise, domesticity, domesticize, domestics, undomestic+/domesticity: domesticities USAGE EXAMPLESHowever, he added, they should be treated humanely, in accordance with international and domestic law. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) About 60 percent of last year’s homicide victims were shot to death and more than one-quarter of them were related to domestic violence. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) For many though, their understanding of “domestic violence” remains limited to its physical manifestations. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) 1adj of or relating to the home domestic servant domestic science 2adj 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 Syn|Ant domesticated accustomed to home life home-lovingdevoted to home duties and pleasures home-styleas if in the home housewifelyrelated or suited to a housewife husbandlyrelated to or suited to a husband undomestic not domestic or related to home undomesticatedunaccustomed to home life 3adj converted or adapted to domestic use domestic animals Syn domesticated tame, tamed brought from wildness into a domesticated state 4adj of concern to or concerning the internal affairs of a nation domestic issues such as tax rate and highway construction Syn|Ant home, interior, internal, national inside the country municipalof or relating to the government of a municipality nationallimited to or in the interests of a particular nation foreign of concern to or concerning the affairs of other nations (other than your own) abroad, overseasin a foreign country external, international, outsidefrom or between other countries internationalconcerning or belonging to all or at least two or more nations 5adj produced in a particular country domestic wine domestic oil Syn native characteristic of or existing by virtue of geographic origin 6n a servant who is paid to perform menial tasks around the household Syn|Hypo|Hyper domestic help, house servant ayah (in India) a native nursemaid who looks after children home helpa person hired to help in another's home (especially one employed by a local authority to help the infirm with domestic work) housekeepera servant who is employed to perform domestic task in a household amah, housemaid, maid, maidservanta female domestic skivvy, slaveya female domestic servant who does all kinds of menial work chambermaid, fille de chambrea maid who is employed to clean and care for bedrooms (now primarily in hotels) handmaid, handmaidena personal maid or female attendant lady's maida maid who is a lady's personal attendant parlormaid, parlourmaida maid in a private home whose duties are to care for the parlor and the table and to answer the door retainer, servant a person working in the service of another (especially in the household) |
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