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# domesticated

«domesticated» in Mova's school dictionary: **A domesticated animal or plant has been tamed and bred by…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

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://md.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://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/domesticated/#m3)

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «domesticated» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/domesticated/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.