All 11 Uses of
domestic
in
Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
- The young matrons discussed the intimacies of domesticity with a frankness and a minuteness which dismayed Carol.†
Chpt 10 *
- Somewhat too late she remembered that she had given up domesticity and repentance.†
Chpt 17
- She perceived that she could do office work without losing any of the putative feminine virtue of domesticity; that cooking and cleaning, when divested of the fussing of an Aunt Bessie, take but a tenth of the time which, in a Gopher Prairie, it is but decent to devote to them.†
Chpt 37
- She found the same faith not only in girls escaped from domesticity but also in demure old ladies who, tragically deprived of esteemed husbands and huge old houses, yet managed to make a very comfortable thing of it by living in small flats and having time to read.†
Chpt 37
- When she dropped her pose and smiled down she discovered Kennicott apoplectic with domestic pride—and gray Guy Pollock staring beseechingly.†
Chpt 6
- I do think the domestic problem is simply becoming awful.†
Chpt 7
- And I certainly don't see any need of a farm-bureau or this domestic science demonstration you talk about.†
Chpt 11
- He was a medical machine now, not a domestic machine.†
Chpt 15
- Bea's successor was the oldish, broad, silent Oscarina, who was suspicious of her frivolous mistress for a month, so that Juanita Haydock was able to crow, "There, smarty, I told you you'd run into the Domestic Problem!"†
Chpt 19
- She was happily domestic when Kennicott sat by her on the floor, to watch baby make faces.†
Chpt 20
- The tragicomedy of the "domestic situation."†
Chpt 24
Definitions:
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(1)
(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 -
(2)
(domestic as in: domestic happiness) relating to a home or family
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(3)
(domestic animal as in: a domestic animal like a dog) referring to animals kept as pets or for ranching
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(4)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Domestics refers to a household servants. (Rarely, domestic refers to a single household servant.)