All 5 Uses
domestic
in
A Bend in the River
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- Most of the people who left our coast went to Arabian homes as domestic servants.
p. 12.9 *domestic = household (relating to a home)
- I had seen Indar and Yvette together many times, but never in such a domestic relationship.†
p. 163.6
- With Yvette—and with Yvette and Raymond together—I had acquired a kind of domestic life: the passion in the flat, the quiet family evening in the house in the Domain.†
p. 191.7
- The idea that it was my domestic life came to me when the life itself was disturbed.†
p. 191.7
- And that was how, at this time of farewell, in this parody of domestic life, we stayed for a while, oddly reposed.†
p. 220.2
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) Domestics refers to a household servants. (Rarely, domestic refers to a single household servant.)