domestics
Sayduh-MES-tiksUS · UK/dəˈmɛs.tɪks/AUS/dəˈmes.tɪks/
- 1Plural of domestic. Use this form when you mean more than one household servant.
The big house employed several domestics to cook and clean.
The domestics gathered in the kitchen before dawn.
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- 2Goods made inside a country instead of brought in from abroad, especially cotton cloth made at home.
Like buying bread from a nearby bakery instead of bread shipped from another country.
The shopkeeper stacked bolts of domestics beside the imported silks.
Many poorer families wore clothes sewn from cheap domestics.
Similarhomespun
Oppositeimports
Note
domestics is a form of domestic
domestic, noun: An argument or fight, sometimes violent, between people who live together. Full entry
- Forms
- domesticdomestics plural
- Spelling
- domestic → domestics: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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