DOMESTICS Synonyms: 48 Similar and Opposite Words

domestics

noun

plural of domestic

as in servants

a person hired to perform household or personal services working as a team, the couple hired themselves out as domestics for wealthy homeowners

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Recent Examples of domestics Butlers, once portrayed as buttoned-up, silver tray-carrying domestics, now manage complex staff, technology, security and logistics across multiple properties. — Robert Frank, CNBC, 10 July 2026 But to be fair, this phenomenon isn’t universal among domestics. — Byron Hurd, The Drive, 3 June 2026 Women worked as domestics; men served as unskilled laborers, canal diggers and later as mill workers across the river. — Paula Kane, The Conversation, 13 Mar. 2026 Along with its extensive food menu, Hamlin Pub bar program will have more than two dozen beers on tap, from ales to IPAs to domestics and imports, along with craft cocktails. — Susan Selasky, Freep.com, 7 Jan. 2026

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But their patience dwindles, her son Telemachus (Tom Holland, his eternal boyishness put to great use) is getting easier to goad into a fight, and the blind swineherd Eumaeus (John Leguizamo) is all that’s left of the king’s loyal servants.

— David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 15 July 2026
Yet his truest education came from the palace sweepers—the humble monk-servants who raised him.

— Charlie Campbell, Time, 9 July 2026