DOMESTICATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does domestication mean? 

• DOMESTICATION (noun)
  The noun DOMESTICATION has 3 senses:

1. adaptation to intimate association with human beings

2. the attribute of having been domesticated

3. accommodation to domestic life

  Familiarity information: DOMESTICATION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOMESTICATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Adaptation to intimate association with human beings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("domestication" is a kind of...):

adaptation; adaption; adjustment (the process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions))

Sense 2

Meaning:

The attribute of having been domesticated

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

domestication; tameness

Hypernyms ("domestication" is a kind of...):

flexibility; tractability; tractableness (the trait of being easily persuaded)

Attribute:

tame; tamed (brought from wildness into a domesticated state)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Accommodation to domestic life

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

her explorer husband resisted all her attempts at domestication

Hypernyms ("domestication" is a kind of...):

accommodation; adjustment; fitting (making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances)

 Context examples 

Though probably present in towns in Palestine as long ago as 7000 years, actual domestication occurred in Egypt about 4000 years ago.

(Cat, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The biologists determined the evolutionary relationships of the different watermelon species and identified entire genes that had been lost during domestication.

(Harvesting genes to improve watermelons, National Science Foundation)

While cultivated tomatoes have a wide range of physical and metabolic variation, there have been several severe bottlenecks during its domestication and breeding.

(Tomato Pan-Genome Makes Bringing Flavor Back Easier, Agricultural Research Service)