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:
“Man makes very much such a nest for his domestic animals, of withered grass and fodder, as the squirrels and many other wild creatures do for themselves.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Mighty few young black women are doin’ domestic work. And I’m glad. That’s why I want my kids to go to school. This one lady told me, “All you people are gettin’ like that.” I said, “I’m glad.” There’s no more gettin’ on their knees.”
—Maggie Holmes, African American domestic worker. As quoted in Working, book 3, by Studs Terkel (1973)
“The domestic career is no more natural to all women than the military career is natural to all men.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)