"domestication" meaning in English

See domestication in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-domestication.wav Forms: domestications [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪʃən Etymology: From domesticate + -ion. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|domesticate|ion}} domesticate + -ion Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} domestication (countable and uncountable, plural domestications)
  1. The act of domesticating, or accustoming to home; the action of taming wild animals or breeding plants. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (The act of domesticating the action of taming): опитомяване (opitomjavane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), domesticació [feminine] (Catalan), domesticatie [feminine] (Dutch), domestication [feminine] (French), Domestizierung [feminine] (German), εξημέρωση (eximérosi) [feminine] (Greek), ביות (biut) [masculine] (Hebrew), háziasítás (Hungarian), domesticazione [feminine] (Italian), pembelajinakan (Malay), pendomestikan (Malay), domestikasi (Malay), domesticação [feminine] (Portuguese), domesticire [feminine] (Romanian), одома́шнивание (odomášnivanije) [neuter] (Russian), доместика́ция (domestikácija) [feminine] (Russian), domesticación [feminine] (Spanish), domesticering [common-gender] (Swedish), sapaamo (Tagalog), одома́шнення (odomášnennja) [neuter] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-domestication-en-noun-OsZ3NLcZ Disambiguation of 'The act of domesticating the action of taming': 41 31 27
  2. 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. Tags: countable, uncountable
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  3. (translation studies) The act of domesticating a text. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Translation studies
    Sense id: en-domestication-en-noun-4zAXcLU0 Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences, translation-studies
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: dedomestication, domestication syndrome, geodomestication, neodomestication, overdomestication, peridomestication, postdomestication, predomestication, semidomestication, undomestication

Inflected forms

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      ],
      "word": "domesticação"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "The act of domesticating the action of taming",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "domesticire"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "odomášnivanije",
      "sense": "The act of domesticating the action of taming",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "одома́шнивание"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "domestikácija",
      "sense": "The act of domesticating the action of taming",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "доместика́ция"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "The act of domesticating the action of taming",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "domesticación"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "The act of domesticating the action of taming",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "domesticering"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "The act of domesticating the action of taming",
      "word": "sapaamo"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "odomášnennja",
      "sense": "The act of domesticating the action of taming",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "одома́шнення"
    }
  ],
  "word": "domestication"
}

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