domestic

1. domestic (adj) — sense 1

Definition: Of or relating to the home.

2. domestic (adj) — sense 2

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

Example: domestic violence; domestic hot water

3. domestic (adj) — sense 3

Definition: Kept by someone, for example as a farm animal or a pet.

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

4. domestic (noun) — sense 4

Definition: A maid or household servant.

Example: It ſeems, the Minds of theſe People are ſo taken up with intenſe Speculations, that they neither can ſpeak, nor attend to the Diſcourſes of others, without being rouzed by ſome external Taction upon the Organs of Speech and Hearing; for which reaſon, thoſe Perſons who are able to afford it always keep a Flapper (the Original is Climenole) in their Family, as one of their Domeſticks, nor ever walk abroad or make Viſits without him.

5. domestic (noun) — sense 5

Definition: A domestic dispute, whether verbal or violent.

Example: Nobody wanted to join the 'Cardigan Squad' – so-called because Child Protection officers were seen as woolly, glorified social workers that mopped up after domestics.