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domestication
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun domestication has 3 senses
- domestication(n = noun.process) Array - adaptation to intimate association with human beings; Array is a kind of adaptation, adaption, adjustment
- domestication(n = noun.attribute) tameness - the attribute of having been domesticated; Array is a kind of flexibility, tractability, tractableness
- domestication(n = noun.act) Array - accommodation to domestic life; "her explorer husband resisted all her attempts at domestication" is a kind of accommodation, adjustment, fitting
ROGET THESAURUS
domestication
Location
N location, localization, lodgment, deposition, reposition, stowage, package, collocation, packing, lading, establishment, settlement, installation, fixation, insertion, habitat, environment, surroundings (situation), circumjacence, anchorage, mooring, encampment, plantation, colony, settlement, cantonment, colonization, domestication, situation, habitation, cohabitation, a local habitation and a name, endenization, naturalization, placed, situate, posited, ensconced, imbedded, embosomed, rooted, domesticated, vested in, unremoved, moored, at anchor.Husbandry
N husbandry, taming, circuration, zoohygiantics, domestication, domesticity, manege, veterinary art, farriery, breeding, pisciculture, menagerie, vivarium, zoological garden, bear pit, aviary, apiary, alveary, beehive, hive, aquarium, fishery, duck pond, fish pond, phthisozoics, euthanasia, sacrifice, humane destruction, neatherd, cowherd, shepherd, grazier, drover, cowkeeper, trainer, breeder, apiarian, apiarist, bull whacker, cowboy, cow puncher, farrier, horse leech, horse doctor, vaquero, veterinarian, vet, veterinary surgeon, cage, hencoop, bird cage, cauf, range, sheepfold, pastoral, bucolic, tame, domestic.
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