| domestic | | |
| n. (person) | 1. domestic, domestic help, house servant | a servant who is paid to perform menial tasks around the household. |
| ~ ayah | (in India) a native nursemaid who looks after children. |
| ~ home help | a person hired to help in another's home (especially one employed by a local authority to help the infirm with domestic work). |
| ~ housekeeper | a servant who is employed to perform domestic task in a household. |
| ~ housemaid, maid, maidservant, amah | a female domestic. |
| ~ servant, retainer | a person working in the service of another (especially in the household). |
| ~ skivvy, slavey | a female domestic servant who does all kinds of menial work. |
| adj. | 2. domestic | of concern to or concerning the internal affairs of a nation.; "domestic issues such as tax rate and highway construction" |
| ~ interior, home, internal, national | inside the country.; "the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior"; "the nation's internal politics" |
| ~ municipal | of or relating to the government of a municipality.; "international law...only authorizes a belligerent to punish a spy under its municipal law" |
| ~ national | limited to or in the interests of a particular nation.; "national interests"; "isolationism is a strictly national policy" |
| adj. (pertain) | 3. domestic | of or relating to the home.; "domestic servant"; "domestic science" |
| adj. | 4. domestic | of or involving the home or family.; "domestic worries"; "domestic happiness"; "they share the domestic chores"; "everything sounded very peaceful and domestic"; "an author of blood-and-thunder novels yet quite domestic in his taste" |
| ~ domesticated | accustomed to home life.; "some men think it unmanly to be domesticated; others find gratification in it" |
| ~ home-loving | devoted to home duties and pleasures. |
| ~ home-style | as if in the home.; "home-style cooking" |
| ~ housewifely | related or suited to a housewife.; "housewifely virtues" |
| ~ husbandly | related to or suited to a husband.; "assumed husbandly duties like mowing the lawn" |
| adj. | 5. domestic, domesticated | converted or adapted to domestic use.; "domestic animals"; "domesticated plants like maize" |
| ~ tamed, tame | brought from wildness into a domesticated state.; "tame animals"; "fields of tame blueberries" |
| adj. | 6. domestic | produced in a particular country.; "domestic wine"; "domestic oil" |
| ~ native | characteristic of or existing by virtue of geographic origin.; "the native North American sugar maple"; "many native artists studied abroad" |
| homely | | |
| adj. | 1. homely, plain | lacking in physical beauty or proportion.; "a homely child"; "several of the buildings were downright homely"; "a plain girl with a freckled face" |
| ~ unattractive | lacking beauty or charm.; "as unattractive as most mining regions" |
| adj. | 2. homelike, homely, homey, homy | having a feeling of home; cozy and comfortable.; "the homely everyday atmosphere"; "a homey little inn" |
| ~ comfortable, comfy | providing or experiencing physical well-being or relief (`comfy' is informal).; "comfortable clothes"; "comfortable suburban houses"; "made himself comfortable in an armchair"; "the antihistamine made her feel more comfortable"; "are you comfortable?"; "feeling comfy now?" |
| adj. | 3. homely | plain and unpretentious.; "homely truths"; "letters to his son full of homely advice"; "homely fare" |
| ~ plain | not elaborate or elaborated; simple.; "plain food"; "stuck to the plain facts"; "a plain blue suit"; "a plain rectangular brick building" |
| adj. | 4. homely | without artificial refinement or elegance.; "plain homely furniture"; "homely manners" |
| ~ inelegant | lacking in refinement or grace or good taste. |
| home | | |
| n. (location) | 1. home, place | where you live at a particular time.; "deliver the package to my home"; "he doesn't have a home to go to"; "your place or mine?" |
| ~ abode, residence | any address at which you dwell more than temporarily.; "a person can have several residences" |
| ~ home away from home, home from home | a place where you are just as comfortable and content as if you were home. |
| n. (artifact) | 2. abode, domicile, dwelling, dwelling house, habitation, home | housing that someone is living in.; "he built a modest dwelling near the pond"; "they raise money to provide homes for the homeless" |
| ~ bathroom, bath | a room (as in a residence) containing a bathtub or shower and usually a washbasin and toilet. |
| ~ bedchamber, bedroom, sleeping accommodation, sleeping room, chamber | a room used primarily for sleeping. |
| ~ cliff dwelling | a rock and adobe dwelling built on sheltered ledges in the sides of a cliff.; "the Anasazi built cliff dwellings in the southwestern United States" |
| ~ condo, condominium | one of the dwelling units in a condominium. |
| ~ den | a room that is comfortable and secluded. |
| ~ dinette | a small area off of a kitchen that is used for dining. |
| ~ dining-room, dining room | a room used for dining. |
| ~ dressing room | a room in which you can change clothes. |
| ~ family room | a recreation room in a private house. |
| ~ fixer-upper | a house or other dwelling in need of repair (usually offered for sale at a low price). |
| ~ fireside, hearth | home symbolized as a part of the fireplace.; "driven from hearth and home"; "fighting in defense of their firesides" |
| ~ hermitage | the abode of a hermit. |
| ~ homestead | dwelling that is usually a farmhouse and adjoining land. |
| ~ house | a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families.; "he has a house on Cape Cod"; "she felt she had to get out of the house" |
| ~ housing, living accommodations, lodging | structures collectively in which people are housed. |
| ~ kitchen | a room equipped for preparing meals. |
| ~ lake dwelling, pile dwelling | dwelling built on piles in or near a lake; specifically in prehistoric villages. |
| ~ front room, living-room, living room, sitting room, parlor, parlour | a room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax. |
| ~ indian lodge, lodge | any of various Native American dwellings. |
| ~ messuage | (law) a dwelling house and its adjacent buildings and the adjacent land used by the household. |
| ~ semi-detached house | a dwelling that is attached to something on only one side. |
| ~ vacation home | a dwelling (a second home) where you live while you are on vacation. |
| ~ yurt | a circular domed dwelling that is portable and self-supporting; originally used by nomadic Mongol and Turkic people of central Asia but now used as inexpensive alternative or temporary housing. |
| n. (location) | 3. home | the country or state or city where you live.; "Canadian tariffs enabled United States lumber companies to raise prices at home"; "his home is New Jersey" |
| ~ location | a point or extent in space. |
| n. (artifact) | 4. home, home base, home plate, plate | (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score.; "he ruled that the runner failed to touch home" |
| ~ baseball, baseball game | a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs.; "he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball game on every empty lot"; "there was a desire for National League ball in the area"; "play ball!" |
| ~ bag, base | a place that the runner must touch before scoring.; "he scrambled to get back to the bag" |
| n. (location) | 5. base, home | the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end. |
| ~ location | a point or extent in space. |
| n. (location) | 6. home | place where something began and flourished.; "the United States is the home of basketball" |
| ~ origin, source, root, rootage, beginning | the place where something begins, where it springs into being.; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root" |
| n. (state) | 7. home | an environment offering affection and security.; "home is where the heart is"; "he grew up in a good Christian home"; "there's no place like home" |
| ~ environment | the totality of surrounding conditions.; "he longed for the comfortable environment of his living room" |
| n. (group) | 8. family, home, house, household, menage | a social unit living together.; "he moved his family to Virginia"; "It was a good Christian household"; "I waited until the whole house was asleep"; "the teacher asked how many people made up his home" |
| ~ broken home | a family in which the parents have separated or divorced. |
| ~ conjugal family, nuclear family | a family consisting of parents and their children and grandparents of a marital partner. |
| ~ extended family | a family consisting of the nuclear family and their blood relatives. |
| ~ foster family | the family of a fosterling. |
| ~ foster home | a household in which an orphaned or delinquent child is placed (usually by a social-service agency). |
| ~ menage a trois | household for three; an arrangement where a married couple and a lover of one of them live together while sharing sexual relations. |
| ~ social unit, unit | an organization regarded as part of a larger social group.; "the coach said the offensive unit did a good job"; "after the battle the soldier had trouble rejoining his unit" |
| n. (artifact) | 9. home, nursing home, rest home | an institution where people are cared for.; "a home for the elderly" |
| ~ institution | an establishment consisting of a building or complex of buildings where an organization for the promotion of some cause is situated. |
| v. (social) | 10. home | provide with, or send to, a home. |
| ~ domiciliate, house, put up | provide housing for.; "The immigrants were housed in a new development outside the town" |
| v. (motion) | 11. home | return home accurately from a long distance.; "homing pigeons" |
| ~ return | go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before.; "return to your native land"; "the professor returned to his teaching position after serving as Dean" |
| adj. | 12. home | used of your own ground.; "a home game" |
| ~ athletics, sport | an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition. |
| adj. (pertain) | 13. home | relating to or being where one lives or where one's roots are.; "my home town" |
| adj. | 14. home, interior, internal, national | inside the country.; "the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior"; "the nation's internal politics" |
| ~ domestic | of concern to or concerning the internal affairs of a nation.; "domestic issues such as tax rate and highway construction" |
| adv. | 15. home | at or to or in the direction of one's home or family.; "He stays home on weekends"; "after the game the children brought friends home for supper"; "I'll be home tomorrow"; "came riding home in style"; "I hope you will come home for Christmas"; "I'll take her home"; "don't forget to write home" |
| adv. | 16. home | on or to the point aimed at.; "the arrow struck home" |
| adv. | 17. home | to the fullest extent; to the heart.; "drove the nail home"; "drove his point home"; "his comments hit home" |
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