(transitive) To make domestic. / (transitive) To make (more) fit for domestic life. / (transitive) To adapt to live with humans. / (intransitive) To adapt to live with humans.

An animal or plant that has been domesticated.

A legal or personal relationship between individuals who live together and share a common domestic life but are not joined in a traditional marriage or a civil union. Typically the partners in a domestic partnership enjoy at least part of the rights that the married couples have.

Life at home; homelife. / (in the plural) Domestic chores; housework. / Affection for the home and its material comforts.

(historical) The Book of Winchester; the principal record of the Domesday survey of England carried out in 1086 for William the Conqueror, comprising of two volumes: the Great Domesday Book and the Little Domesday Book.

(usually in the plural) One of the volumes of the Domesday Book. / (figuratively) A record of any other Norman survey.

simple past tense and past participle of domesticate

(of an animal or a plant, especially a pet) selectively bred to live with or around humans.

(zoology) A domesticated cat, of the species Felis catus or Felis silvestris catus, especially one kept as a pet or for vermin control.

Water used, in any type of building, for domestic purposes, principally drinking, food preparation, sanitation and personal hygiene (but not including space heating, swimming pool heating, or processes such as commercial food preparation or clothes washing).