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# domesticated

adjective (domesticated); verb (domesticate, domesticates, domesticated, domesticating — past form)

«domesticated» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A domesticated animal or plant has been tamed and bred by people over many generations to live with them or be useful, like dogs, cows, sheep and wheat. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/domesticated/#m1)
2. Domesticated is the past of «domesticate»: tamed and bred for human use. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/domesticated/#m2)
3. (humorous) A domesticated person likes or is good at housework and cooking. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/domesticated/#m3)

### In the lessons

In history and science lessons, early farmers domesticated wolves into dogs and wild grasses into wheat, which allowed villages to grow. Domesticated animals differ from wild ones: one tame lion is tamed, not domesticated. In everyday jokes, «He's become very domesticated» means he now cooks and cleans.

### Examples

- Dogs were the first domesticated animals. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/domesticated/#x1)
- People domesticated sheep for wool and meat. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/domesticated/#x2)
- Wheat was domesticated thousands of years ago. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/domesticated/#x3)
- A cat is domesticated, but a fox is wild. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/domesticated/#x4)
- Horses were domesticated on the grasslands of Asia. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/domesticated/#x5)
- Dad's become very domesticated — he even irons now! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/domesticated/#x6)
- Domesticated pigs come from wild boar. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/domesticated/#x7)

### Note

Trap: «tame» means one animal is calm with people; «domesticated» means a whole species has been changed by breeding over many generations. Noun: domestication.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «domesticated» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/domesticated/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«domesticated» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/domesticated.html) on Mova free.