DOMESTIC, adjective [Latin , a house.] 1. Belonging to the house, or home; pertaining to ones place of residence, and to the family; as domestic concerns; domestic life; domestic duties; domestic affairs; domestic contentions; domestic happiness; domestic worship. 2. Remaining much at home; living in retirement; as a domestic man or woman. 3. Living near the habitations of man; tame; not wild; as domestic animals. 4. Pertaining to a nation considered as a family, or to ones own country; intestine; not foreign; as domestic troubles; domestic dissensions. 5. Made in ones own house, nation or country; as domestic manufactures. DOMESTIC, noun One who lives in the family of another, as a chaplain or secretary. Also, a servant or hired laborer, residing with a family.
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI