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English

Alternative forms

• domestick (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle French domestique, from Latin domesticus, from domus (“house, home”).

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??m?st?k/
• Rhymes: -?st?k
• Hyphenation: do?mes?tic

Adjective

domestic (comparative more domestic, superlative most domestic)

1. Of or relating to the home.
   • 1994, George Whitmore, Getting Rid of Robert in Violet Quill:

     “Dan’s not as domestic as you," I commented rather nastily.

2. Of or relating to activities normally associated with the home, wherever they actually occur.

3. (of an animal) Kept by someone, for example as a farm animal or a pet.
   • 1890, US Bureau of Animal Industry, Annual report v 6/7, 1889/90

     It shall be the duty of any owner or person in charge of any domestic animal or animals.

4. Internal to a specific country.
   • 1996, Robert O. Keohane, Helen V. Milner, Internationalization and Domestic Politics:

     The proportion of international economic flows relative to domestic ones.
5. Tending to stay at home; not outgoing.

Synonyms

• (of or relating to the home): bourgeois, civilized, comfortable
• (kept by someone): domesticated

Antonyms

• (of or relating to the home): adventurous, social
• (local): foreign, global
• (kept by someone): wild, feral

Derived terms

• domestic cat
• domestic hot water
• domestic violence

Translations

Noun

domestic (plural domestics)

1. A maid or household servant.
   • 1992, Mary Romero, Maid in the U.S.A.

     New standards of cleanliness increased the workload for domestics.

2. A domestic dispute, whether verbal or violent.
   • 2005, Bellingham-Whatcom County Commission Against Domestic Violence, Domestic Violence in Whatcom County (read on the Whatcom County website at[2] on 20 May 2006) - The number of “verbal domestics” (where law enforcement determines that no assault has occurred and where no arrest is made), decreased significantly.

Translations

Related terms

Anagrams

• comedist, cosmetid, demotics, docetism

Interlingua

Adjective

domestic (not comparable)

1. domestic, domesticated, pertaining to homes, home life or husbandry

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French domestique, Latin domesticus. Largely replaced earlier dumesnic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /do?mes.tik/

Adjective

domestic m or n (feminine singular domestic?, masculine plural domestici, feminine and neuter plural domestice)

1. domestic (of or relating to the home)
2. (of animals) domestic

Declension

Synonyms

• (of or related to the house): casnic

Related terms

• domestici
• domesticitate

English

Etymology

From Middle English hewe, from Old English h?wa (“member of a family”), from Proto-Germanic *h?wô (“relative, fellow-lodger, family”), from Proto-Indo-European *?ey- (“to lie with, store, be familiar”). More at hind.

Noun

hewe (plural hewes)

1. (obsolete) A domestic; a servant or retainer.

Anagrams

• whee

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English h?wa, from Proto-Germanic *h?wô.

Alternative forms

• heue, hiue, hywe, heowe

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hiu?(?)/

  Rhymes: -iu?(?)

Noun

hewe (plural hewes or hewen)

1. servant, hireling
2. rascal, villein

Descendants

• English: hewe

References

• “heue, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.

Etymology 2

From Old English h?ew, from Proto-Germanic *hiwj?.

Alternative forms

• hew, heu, hu?e, hiwe, hwe, hue, hu, hyw, heow, hou, heou, howe, heowe, heouwe

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hiu?/

  Rhymes: -iu?

Noun

hewe (plural hewes or hewen)

1. hue (tone, color)
   • 14^th Century, Chaucer, General Prologue

     Boold was hir face, and fair, and reed of hewe.

     Bold was her face, and fair, and red of hue.

2. brightness, clarity (of a color)
3. paint, dye
4. complexion, appearance, look
5. expression, demeanour

Descendants

• English: hue
• Scots: hew, hu, hue

References

• “heu, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.

See also

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German heben, Dutch heffen, English heave.

Verb

hewe

1. to hold
2. to lift