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Webster 1913 Edition


Domestication

Do-mesˊti-ca′tion

,
Noun.
[Cf. F.
domestication
.]
The act of domesticating, or accustoming to home; the action of taming wild animals.

Webster 1828 Edition


Domestication

DOMESTICATION

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Noun.
1.
The act of withdrawing from the public notice and living much at home.
2.
The act of taming or reclaiming wild animals.

Definition 2024


domestication

domestication

English

Noun

domestication (countable and uncountable, plural domestications)

  1. The act of domesticating, or accustoming to home; the action of taming wild animals or breeding plants.
  2. The act of domesticating, or making a legal instrument recognized and enforceable in a jurisdiction foreign to the one in which the instrument was originally issued or created.

Translations


French

Noun

domestication f (plural domestications)

  1. domestication

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