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domestication

  • noun

The act of domesticating, or accustoming to home; the action of taming wild animals or breeding plants.

Other meanings

  1. 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.

  2. The act of domesticating a text.

Related words

  • dedomestication
  • geodomestication
  • neodomestication
  • overdomestication
  • peridomestication
  • postdomestication
  • predomestication
  • semidomestication
  • undomestication
  • domestication syndrome
  • self-domestication

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “domestication” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.