All 3 Uses of
domestic
in
To Kill a Mockingbird
- An oppressive odor met us when we crossed the threshold, an odor I had met many times in rain-rotted gray houses where there are coal-oil lamps, water dippers, and unbleached domestic sheets.
p. 141..4 (definition 1)domestic = relating to a home or family
- Business was excellent when Governor William Wyatt Bibb, with a view to promoting the newly created county's domestic tranquility, dispatched a team of surveyors to locate its exact center and there establish its seat of government.
p. 173..9 (definition 2) *domestic = relating to a local geographic area
- And so they went, down the row of laughing women, around the diningroom, refilling coffee cups, dishing out goodies as though their only regret was the temporary domestic disaster of losing Calpurnia.
p. 317..8 (definition 1) *domestic = relating to a home or family
Definitions:
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(1) (domestic as in: domestic happiness) relating to a home or family
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(2) (domestic as in: the domestic market) relating to a home country
or (much more rarely,): relating to a geographic area that is smaller than a country