domestic science

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noun

home economics.

Origin of domestic science

First recorded in 1895–1900

Words nearby domestic science

domestic commerce, domestic court, domestic fowl, domestic partner, domestic prelate, domestic science, domestic system, domestic violence, domestic-relations court, domesticate, domesticity

Words related to domestic science

housekeeping

Example sentences from the Web for domestic science

  • I know it runs counter to all our fixed ideas and what we are taught in domestic-science classes.

    Home Fires in France |Dorothy Canfield

  • But the teacher must, in most instances, move out of her domestic-science kitchen with its little gas stoves and quart sauce-pans.

    Our Schools in War Time—and After |Arthur Davis Dean

  • Some will have to be fed in the schools, and here is an opportunity for the older girls in domestic-science classes.

    Our Schools in War Time—and After |Arthur Davis Dean

British Dictionary definitions for domestic science

domestic science

noun

the study of cooking, needlework, and other subjects concerned with household skills