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Household vs. Domestic

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Householdnoun

Collectively, all the persons who live in a given house; a family including attendants, servants etc.; a domestic or family establishment.

Domesticadjective

Of or relating to the home.

Householdnoun

(obsolete) A line of ancestry; a race or house.

Domesticadjective

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

ā€˜domestic violence;’; ā€˜domestic hot water’;

Householdadjective

Belonging to the same house and family.

Domesticadjective

(of an animal) Kept by someone, for example as a farm animal or a pet.

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Householdadjective

Found in or having its origin in a home.

Domesticadjective

Internal to a specific country.

Householdadjective

Widely known to the public; familiar.

ā€˜a household word; a household name’;

Domesticadjective

Tending to stay at home; not outgoing.

Householdnoun

Those who dwell under the same roof and compose a family.

ā€˜And calls, without affecting airs,His household twice a day to prayers.’;

Domesticnoun

A house servant; a maid; a household worker.

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Householdnoun

A line of ancestory; a race or house.

Domesticnoun

A domestic dispute, whether verbal or violent

Householdadjective

Belonging to the house and family; domestic; as, household furniture; household affairs.

Domesticadjective

Of or pertaining to one's house or home, or one's household or family; relating to home life; as, domestic concerns, life, duties, cares, happiness, worship, servants.

ā€˜His fortitude is the more extraordinary, because his domestic feelings were unusually strong.’;

Householdnoun

a social unit living together;

ā€˜he moved his family to Virginia’; ā€˜It was a good Christian household’; ā€˜I waited until the whole house was asleep’; ā€˜the teacher asked how many people made up his home’;

Domesticadjective

Remaining much at home; devoted to home duties or pleasures; as, a domestic man or woman.

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Household

A household consists of one or several persons who live in the same dwelling and share meals. It may also consist of a single family or another group of people.

Domesticadjective

Of or pertaining to a nation considered as a family or home, or to one's own country; intestine; not foreign; as, foreign wars and domestic dissensions.

Domesticadjective

Living in or near the habitations of man; domesticated; tame as distinguished from wild; as, domestic animals.

Domesticadjective

Made in one's own house, nation, or country; as, domestic manufactures, wines, etc.

Domesticnoun

One who lives in the family of an other, as hired household assistant; a house servant.

ā€˜The master labors and leads an anxious life, to secure plenty and ease to the domestic.’;

Domesticnoun

Articles of home manufacture, especially cotton goods.

Domesticnoun

a household servant

Domesticadjective

of concern to or concerning the internal affairs of a nation;

ā€˜domestic issues such as tax rate and highway construction’;

Domesticadjective

of or relating to the home;

ā€˜domestic servant’; ā€˜domestic science’;

Domesticadjective

of or involving the home or family;

ā€˜domestic worries’; ā€˜domestic happiness’; ā€˜they share the domestic chores’; ā€˜everything sounded very peaceful and domestic’; ā€˜an author of blood-and-thunder novels yet quite domestic in his taste’;

Domesticadjective

converted or adapted to domestic use;

ā€˜domestic animals’; ā€˜domesticated plants like maize’;

Domesticadjective

produced in a particular country;

ā€˜domestic wine’; ā€˜domestic oil’;

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