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What does "domestic" mean?

Domestic: Of or pertaining to a nation considered as a family or home, or to one's own country; intestine; not foreign; as, foreign wars and domestic dissensions. Shak.

Additional senses

  1. 2.Remaining much at home; devoted to home duties or pleasures; as, a domestic man or woman.
  2. 3.Living in or near the habitations of man; domesticated; tame as distinguished from wild; as, domestic animals.
  3. 4.Made in one's own house, nation, or country; as, domestic manufactures, wines, etc.
  4. 5.One who lives in the family of an other, as hired household assistant; a house servant. The master labors and leads an anxious life, to secure plenty and ease to the domestic. V. Knox.
  5. 6.pl. (Com.) Articles of home manufacture, especially cotton goods. [U. S.]

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