All 9 Uses
domestic
in
Hillbilly Elegy
(Edited)
- Sometimes Mom would take us to a local motel, where we'd hide out for a few days until Mamaw or Papaw convinced Mom to face her domestic problems.
p. 70.5domestic = relating to a home and family
- Mom had a lot of Mamaw's fire, which meant that she never allowed herself to become a victim during domestic disputes.
p. 70.6
- Mom was released from jail on bond and prosecuted for a domestic violence misdemeanor.
p. 78.5
- I didn't tell the whole story, since I knew I had to choose my words carefully: During Mom's domestic violence case a couple of years earlier, Lindsay and I had let slip some unsavory details about Mom's parenting, and because it counted as a new revelation of abuse, the family counselor was required to report it to child services.
p. 121.4
- On top of all that were the drugs, the domestic violence case, children's services prying into our lives, and Papaw dying.
p. 150.6
- My closest friends had all seen some kind of domestic strife in their life—divorces, remarriages, legal separations, or fathers who spent some time in jail.
p. 203.7
- Why is domestic strife so common in families like mine?
p. 207.9
- The statistics are stacked high against them, and many succumb: to crime or an early death at worst, domestic strife and welfare dependency at best.
p. 241.5
- Still, shopping for low-income kids reminds me of my childhood and of the ways that Christmas gifts can serve as domestic land mines.
p. 250.7 *domestic = relating to a home or family
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.)