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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Noun

Egyptologists have long debated whether the earliest pharaohs of the First Dynasty were buried with various servants and officials to serve them in the afterlife—a form of human sacrifice.

— Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 5 Oct. 2026
This is the kind of show where an opulent tea party is dramatized not just by many different plates of fancy pastries, fancy wreaths and lots of furniture, but by having all that stuff carted in by a dozen or so butlers, maids and other servants.

— Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of servants

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This is the kind of show where an opulent tea party is dramatized not just by many different plates of fancy pastries, fancy wreaths and lots of furniture, but by having all that stuff carted in by a dozen or so butlers, maids and other servants.

— Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 1 Oct. 2026
Jackson was particularly vocal in her criticism of the show’s shallow scripts, which featured plotlines about them going undercover as French maids, showgirls, lifeguards and, perhaps most infamously, prison inmates.

— Michael Callahan, HollywoodReporter, 11 Sep. 2026