Domestic vs Nation - What's the difference?
domestic | nation |
Of or relating to the home.
* 1994 , George Whitmore, Getting Rid of Robert'' in ''Violet Quill :
Of or relating to activities normally associated with the home, wherever they actually occur.
(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
Internal to a specific country.
* 1996', Robert O. Keohane, Helen V. Milner, ''Internationalization and '''Domestic Politics :
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= A house servant; a maid; a household worker.
* Mary Romero, Maid in the U.S.A. - New standards of cleanliness increased the workload for domestic s.
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 on 20 May 2006) - The number of “verbal ' domestic s” (where law enforcement determines that no assault has occurred and where no arrest is made), decreased significantly.
An historically constituted, stable community of people, formed on the basis of a common language, territory, economic life, ethnicity and/or psychological make-up manifested in a common culture.
A sovereign state.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
, volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= (chiefly, historical) An association of students based on their birthplace or ethnicity. (jump)
(obsolete) A great number; a great deal.
(rare) Damnation.
(rare, dialectal) Extremely; very
* Mark Twain:
As nouns the difference between domestic and nation
is that domestic is a house servant; a maid; a household worker while nation is (label) nation.As an adjective domestic
is of or relating to the home.domestic
English
(wikipedia domestic)Alternative forms
* domestick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- “Dan’s not as domestic as you," I commented rather nastily.
- It shall be the duty of any owner or person in charge of any domestic animal or animals.
- The proportion of international economic flows relative to domestic ones.
Boundary problems, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}
Synonyms
* (of or relating to the home) bourgeois, civilized, comfortable * (kept by someone) domesticatedAntonyms
* (of or relating to the home) adventurous, social * (local) foreign * (kept by someone) wild, feralDerived terms
* domestic cat * domestic hot water * domestic violenceNoun
(en noun)Anagrams
* ----nation
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ).Noun
(en noun)Fantasy of navigation, passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]:
- a nation of herbs
- (Sterne)
Usage notes
* (British) Following the establishment of the Scottish and Welsh parliaments, England, Scotland and Wales are normally considered distinct nations. Application of the term nation to the United Kingdom as a whole is deprecated in most style guides, including the BBC, most newspapers and in UK Government publications. Northern Ireland, being of less clear legal status, generally remains a province.Synonyms
* thede * (an association of students) student nationDerived terms
* First Nations * Ford Nation * national * nationality * nation building * nation-state * student nation * United NationsSee also
* country * culture * homeland * ethnicity * people * race * society * state * thedeEtymology 2
Probably short for (m).Noun
Adverb
- I'm nation sorry for you.