domestic

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B1 — Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

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

There was nothing domestic about Carrie. — The best short stories of 1917, and the yearbook of the American short story, Unknown
He did not understand the domestic emotions. — The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition, Rudyard Kipling
The domestic or home debt, of $42,000,000. — A School History of the United States, John Bach McMaster

domestic help, house servant

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