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Definition: Domicile |
DomicileNoun1. Housing that someone is living in; "he built a modest dwelling near the pond"; "they raise money to provide homes for the homeless". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "domicile" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1657. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Economics | That place where a person or organization has their principal residence with intent to make it their permanent home. (references) |
Finance | The place where a person has his or her true, fixed, permanent home; their principal established residence to which a person intends to return whenever absent. A person may have several residences, but only one domicile. (references) |
Law | Permanent legal residence. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Place where an individual is living with the intention of staying permanently. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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Synonyms: DomicileSynonyms: abode (n), dwelling (n), dwelling house (n), habitation (n), home (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Abode | Noun: abode, dwelling, lodging, domicile, residence, apartment, place, digs, pad, address, habitation, where one's lot is cast, local habitation, berth, diggings, seat, |
Home, fatherland; country; homestead, homestall; fireside; hearth, hearth stone; chimney corner, inglenook, ingle side; harem, seraglio, zenana; household gods, lares et penates, roof, household, housing, dulce domum, paternal domicile; native soil, native land. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Domicile |
| English words defined with "domicile": Domiciled, domiciliary, Domiciliate, Domiciling, Domicillary ♦ To make one's self at home. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "domicile": Domestic Use of water ♦ exemption from taxation, exemption from taxes ♦ fiscal immunity ♦ immunity from taxation ♦ tax immunity. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Domicile" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (abode, accommodation, domicile, dwelling, dwelling place, dwelling-place, dwelling-place-residence, habitation, home, quarters, residence). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Dernier domicile connu (1970) Domicile conjugal (1970) Livraison domicile (2003) Un homme domicile (1995) Liaisons domicile (1993) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Les Bains a Domicile. / Lith. de Marlet. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Every person will vote in the commune where he is domiciled or in which he was born, if he has not retained his domicile in the area. (reference) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Bossuet had never much domicile, sometimes none at all. |
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Business | Second, firms are required to be licensed by the emirate of domicile before beginning business activities. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Thailand | Longstanding written restrictions on the travel and domicile of certain Vietnamese resident aliens who immigrated to Thailand in 1945 and 1946, and Chinese who immigrated between 1953 and 1961, remain in place. (references) |
Economic History | Argentina | The founders of a company must report a domicile in Argentina for related proceedings. (references) |
Syria | Foreign firms doing business with the Syrian public sector must have a local address (domicile), but national law does not require foreign firms to have an agent or distributor. (references) | |
Human Rights | Turkey | The Constitution provides for the inviolability of a person's domicile and the privacy of correspondence and communication; however, at times the Government infringed on these rights. (references) |
Turkey | A constitutional amendment passed in October protects the right to privacy of person and domicile by requiring written authorization for searches and wiretapping, and they may only be used for reasons of national security. (references) | |
Burma | The law requires that any person who spends the night at a place other than his registered domicile inform the police in advance, and that any household that hosts a person not domiciled there to maintain and submit to the police a guest list. (references) | |
Travel | Colombia | Although business travelers may enter Colombia on a tourist visa, they should be aware that they may not establish a domicile in Colombia and that the activities they engage in may not produce honoraria or salaries in Colombia. (references) |
Women | Turkey | Because the husband is the legal head of household, he is authorized to choose the domicile and represents the conjugal unit. (references) |
Mozambique | The legal domicile of a married woman is her husband's house, and she may work outside the home only with the express consent of her husband. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Israel and the occupied territories | The minimum legal working age in the West Bank and Gaza is 15 years, and there are special limits governing the conditions of employment for juveniles between 15 and 18 years, including prohibitions against working at night, under conditions of hard labor, or in jobs that require them to travel outside their area of domicile. (references) |
Malaysia | From 1998 through June, 130 individuals involved in the harboring of prostitutes were placed under "restricted residence." The Restricted Residence Act is designed to deter organized criminal activity and requires individuals to temporarily move to a predetermined location far from their usual domicile, and check in regularly with police. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Domicile" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.69% of the time. "Domicile" is used about 130 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 97.69% | 127 | 28,395 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 2.31% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 130 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "domicile": legal domicile. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "domicile"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | vendbanim (abode, dwelling, dwelling place, habitat, habitation, locality, place, plantation, residence, settlement), banesë e përhershme, banesë (abode, dwelling, dwelling place, habitat, habitation, home, house, inhabitation, living quarters, lodging, place, quarters, residence, shebang). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مفر لشركة رسمي, مكان اقامة, منزل (apartment, dwelling, flat, home, house, place, residence), نزل ب (quarter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | седалище (habitation, nates, residence, seat), резиденция (residence, seat), място където се изплаща полица, местожителство (address, inhabitation, residence), постоянен дом. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 住处 (Casa). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | trvalé bydlištì, bydlištì (abode, dwelling place, place, place of residence, residence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | opholdssted (dwelling, home, place of residence, place where s.o. is staying, residence, stay), hjemsted (base port, dwelling, home, home port, place of residence, residence), bopælssted (dwelling, home, place of residence, residence), bopæl (abode, dwelling-place, dwelling-place-residence, residence), bolig (abode, accommodation, dwelling, residence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | domicilie (abode, dwelling-place, residence), woonplaats (abode, dwelling-place, dwelling-place-residence, residence), werkelijke woonplaats, vestigingsplaats (dwelling, home, location, place of location, place of residence, residence, site), verblijfplaats (dwelling, habitual residence, home, place of residence, place where s.o. is staying, residence, stay, usual residence), standplaats (duty station, dwelling, habitat, home, place of residence, post, residence, site, station, the profession of notary public). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مقر (Chair, Seat, Stead), محل اقامت (Residence, Residency, Seat), مسکن دادن (Inn), مسکن (Abode, Calmative, Dwelling, Narcotic, Paliative, Roof, Settlement, Stead), خانه (Home, House, Lodge, Room, Shack, Socket), اقامتگاه (Quarter, Residence, Residency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | asuinpaikka (abode, place of residence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | domicile. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | wohnsitz (abode, dwelling-place, place of abode, residence), domizil (abode), wohnort (abode, dwelling-place, dwelling-place-residence, living room, place od residence, place of residence, residence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κατοικία (abode, dwelling, habitat, habitation, home, house, residence, residency, seat), διαμονή (abode, residence, residency, stay, staying). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מקום מושב (residence), מקום מ'ורים (by, dwelling place, residence), עמ"" (attitude, position, posture, stance, stand, standing, standing place, station, status). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | telepít (lay out, to deploy, to introduce, to locate, to populate, to route), lakóhely (abode, dwelling, dwelling space, habitation, home, house, living quarters, residence), lakás (apartment, chambers, dwelling, flat, habitation, houseful, housing, living quarters, lodging, pigsty, place, quarters, residence, rooms, shop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | domisili, tempat tinggal (abode, dwelling, habitat, residence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | domicilio (abode). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 住所 (address, residence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | すみど"ろ (address, residence), かたく (burning house, premises, pretense, pretext, this world of suffering), '"せきち, じゅうしょ (address, residence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 본 지. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ynnyd vaghee (dwelling place, habitation), cur ayns ynnyd vaghee. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | bopel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | omicileday domicílio real, domicílio (abode, dwelling, dwelling-place, residence, residency), residência (bower, dwelling-place, residence, residency, settlement), lugar de residência (dwelling, home, place of residence, residence), local de residência (dwelling, home, place of residence, residence). (various references) domiciliu (abode, dwelling place, home, house, inhabitation, living, residence, residency), se stabili într-un loc, reşedinţã (abode, court, habitation, inhabitation, residence, residency, seat). (various references) местожительство (dwelling place, dwelling-place, habitation, location, residence, residency). (various references) stanište (habitat, haft, lair, lodgement, lodgment, residence), stalno mesto boravka, prebivalište (abode, indwelling, residence). (various references) domicilio real, domicilio (abode, address, dwelling-place, dwelling-place-residence, home, permanent address, place of residence, quarters, residence, residency, settlement, settling), residencia (existence, hall, home, hostel, palace, residence, residency), lugar de residencia (dwelling, home, place of residence, residence). (various references) hemort (home port), bostad (abode, accommodation, diggings, dwelling, dwelling place, flat, habitation, home, housing, lodgings, place, quarters, residence). (various references) ทำให้อยู่เป็นหลักแหล่ง, ที่พัก. (various references) yerleştirmek (accommodate, deposit, domicil, draw out, embed, emplace, enchase, engraft, ensconce, entrench, establish, fix, indwell, ingraft, inject, install, lay, locate, nestle, perch, pitch, place, posit, position, post, put, put in, quarter, reset, seat, set, set up, settle, shake down, sink, site, situate, slot, spot, Square, station, Stow), poliçenin ödendiği yer (domicil), mesken (domicil, dwelling, dwelling house, dwelling place, house, messuage, residence), konut (abode, condo, domicil, dwelling, habitation, house, housing, quarters, residence), ikametgâh (abode, domicil, inhabitation, place of residence, quarters, residence), ikamet ettirmek (domicil), ev (accommodation unit, crib, domestic, domicil, dwelling, dwelling house, dwelling place, habitation, hangout, home, house, household, housing, inhabitation, place, residence, rooms, settlement), ödemek (acquit, ante, ante up, atone for, clear, come across with, defray, disburse, discharge, domicil, domiciliate, fee, foot, fork out, fork over, fork up, give, indemnify, pay, pay for, pay in, pay out, pick up the tab, plonk down, quit, recoup, redeem, repay, retire, satisfy, settle, shell out, spring, stump, stump up, to pay, wipe out). (various references) постійне місце проживання (haft), поселити на постійне місце проживання. (various references) nh ở (tenement). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "domicile": domiciled, domiciles. (additional references) | |
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"Domicile" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: comiczine, damishel, domic, Domicilium, domicle, domiclile, dominie, Domitilia, Domitilla, domocile, Doneyshiel, Dormeuil, dormobile, Sovicille. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-i-i-l-m-o" | |
-1 letter: domicil, eidolic, melodic. | |
-2 letters: coiled, docile, medico, meloid, moiled. | |
-3 letters: celom, clime, coled, dolce, dolci, domic, idiom, imide, imido, iodic, limed, medic, medii, melic, model, oiled, oldie, oleic. | |
-4 letters: cedi, ceil, clod, code, coed, coil, cold, cole, come, deco, deil, deli, demo, dice, diel, dime, diol, dole, dome, emic, iced, idem, idle, idol, imid. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-i-i-l-m-o" | |
+1 letter: domiciled, domiciles. | |
+2 letters: biomedical. | |
+3 letters: diplomacies, domiciliate, malediction, microfilmed, millisecond, polemicized. | |
+4 letters: complexified, dilatometric, domiciliated, domiciliates, immethodical, maledictions, milliseconds, molluscicide. | |
+5 letters: cycloheximide, epidemiologic, molluscicides, radiochemical. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 6F 6D 69 63 69 6C 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. --- -- .. -.-. .. .-.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101111 01101101 01101001 01100011 01101001 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D o m i c i l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 006F 006D 0069 0063 0069 006C 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3881797569757871 |
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