domestication
English
Etymology
From domesticate + -ion.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
domestication (countable and uncountable, plural domestications)
- The act of domesticating, or accustoming to home; the action of taming wild animals or breeding plants.
- 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.
- (translation studies) The act of domesticating a text.
Derived terms
Translations
The act of domesticating the action of taming
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Anagrams
French
Etymology
From domestiquer + -ation.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dɔ.mɛs.ti.ka.sjɔ̃/
Audio: (file)
Noun
domestication f (plural domestications)
- domestication (action of taming wild animals or breeding plants)
See also
Further reading
- “domestication”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.