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# domestication

«domestication» in Mova's school dictionary: **the long process by which people tamed wild animals and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (domestication — mostly uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

Domestication is the long process by which people tamed wild animals and plants over many generations, so they live with or are farmed by people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/domestication/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons (the Stone Age, the first farmers), science (evolution, selective breeding); dogs came from wolves through domestication; cows, sheep, wheat and rice too.

### examples

- The domestication of the dog began thousands of years ago. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/domestication/#x1)
- Domestication of wheat helped people settle in villages. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/domestication/#x2)
- Horses changed life after their domestication. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/domestication/#x3)
- Cats may have chosen domestication themselves, by living near farms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/domestication/#x4)
- Domestication made cows calmer than their wild ancestors. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/domestication/#x5)

### note

Mostly uncountable. Verb: domesticate; adjective: domesticated, domestic. Trap: taming one wild animal is not domestication; domestication takes many generations.

### Trees and pragmatics

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