3 uses
(click/touch triangles for details)
1 —1 use as in:
domestic happiness
Definition
relating to a home or family
- 'Here we have the whole establishment of domestics, I suppose,' was the reflection suggested by this compound order.Chapter 1 (16% in)
There are no more uses of "domestic" flagged with this meaning in Wuthering Heights.
Typical Usage
(best examples)
? —2 uses
exact meaning not specified
- This is not much connected with Miss Isabella's affair: except that it urged me to resolve further on mounting vigilant guard, and doing my utmost to cheek the spread of such bad influence at the Grange: even though I should wake a domestic storm, by thwarting Mrs. Linton's pleasure.Chapter 11 (22% in)
- I began to doubt whether he were a servant or not: his dress and speech were both rude, entirely devoid of the superiority observable in Mr. and Mrs. Heathcliff; his thick brown curls were rough and uncultivated, his whiskers encroached bearishly over his cheeks, and his hands were embrowned like those of a common labourer: still his bearing was free, almost haughty, and he showed none of a domestic's assiduity in attending on the lady of the house.Chapter 2 (31% in)
There are no more uses of "domestic" in Wuthering Heights.
Typical Usage
(best examples)