domestic

Adjective
  1. Of concern to or concerning the internal affairs of a nation (synset 301041784)
    "domestic issues such as tax rate and highway construction"
    also: national - limited to or in the interests of a particular nation
    similar to:
  2. Of or relating to the home (synset 302930907)
    "domestic servant"; "domestic science"
  3. Of or involving the home or family (synset 301042490)
    "domestic worries"; "domestic happiness"; "they share the domestic chores"; "everything sounded very peaceful and domestic"; "an author of blood-and-thunder novels yet quite domestic in his taste"
    tells us about: domesticity - the quality of being domestic or domesticated
    similar to:
  4. Converted or adapted to domestic use (synset 302397489)
    "domestic animals"; "domesticated plants like maize"
    similar to: tame, tamed - brought from wildness into a domesticated state
    same as: domesticated
  5. Produced in a particular country (synset 301040436)
    "domestic wine"; "domestic oil"
    similar to: native - characteristic of or existing by virtue of geographic origin
Noun
  1. A servant who is paid to perform menial tasks around the household (synset 110043844)
    is a type of: retainer, servant - a person working in the service of another (especially in the household)
    subtypes:
    • ayah - (in India) a native nursemaid who looks after children
    • home help - a person hired to help in another's home (especially one employed by a local authority to help the infirm with domestic work)
    • housekeeper - a servant who is employed to perform domestic task in a household
    • amah, housemaid, maid, maidservant - a female domestic
    • skivvy, slavey - a female domestic servant who does all kinds of menial work
    same as: domestic help, house servant

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