Domestic

Domestic can refer to:

  • A domestic worker
  • Domestic airport
  • Domestic violence
  • Domestikos (English: the Domestic), a Byzantine title
    • Domestic of the Schools, commander-in-chief of the Byzantine army in the 9th-11th centuries

Famous quotes containing the word domestic:

    I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it, nowhere does she enjoy a higher station. And ... if anyone asks me what I think the chief cause of the extraordinary prosperity and growing power of this nation, I should answer that it is due to the superiority of their women.
    Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)

    “In great misfortunes,” he told himself, “people want to be alone. They have a right to be. And the misfortunes that occur within one are the greatest. Surely the saddest thing in the world is falling out of love—if once one has ever fallen in.”
    Falling out, for him, seemed to mean falling out of all domestic and social relations, out of his place in the human family, indeed.
    Willa Cather (1873–1947)

    Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family—a domestic church.
    John Paul II [Karol Wojtyla] (b. 1920)