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Domicile

Definition: Domicile

Domicile

Noun

1. 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)


Specialty Definition: Domicile

DomainDefinition

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Domicile

Synonyms: abode (n), dwelling (n), dwelling house (n), habitation (n), home (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Domicile

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Domicile

English words defined with "domicile": Domiciled, domiciliary, Domiciliate, Domiciling, DomicillaryTo make one's self at home. (references)
Specialty definitions using "domicile": Domestic Use of waterexemption from taxation, exemption from taxesfiscal immunityimmunity from taxationtax 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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Modern Usage: Domicile

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Dernier domicile connu (1970)

Domicile conjugal (1970)

Livraison domicile (2003)

Un homme domicile (1995)

Liaisons domicile (1993)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Domicile

DomainTitle

Books

  • Dictionnaire Pratique des Soins et du Soutien a Domicile (reference)

  • Domicile (reference)

  • Domicile of the Ghost: A Study of Russian Mentality (American University Studies, Series Xii, Slavic Languages and Literature, Vol 10) (reference)

  • From Domicile to Domain: The Formation of Malay and Tagalog Masterpiece Novels in Post-Independence Malaysia and the Philippines (reference)

  • Juliette, Georges: Et Les Autres, Vieillir a Domicile [LARGE PRINT] (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Domicile

Computer Images:
Domicile

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Photo Album: Domicile

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Les Bains a Domicile. / Lith. de Marlet. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Historic Usage: Domicile

AuthorDateQuotation

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Domicile

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Bossuet had never much domicile, sometimes none at all.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Domicile

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: Domicile

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)97.69%12728,395
Lexical Verb (infinitive)2.31%3202,518
                    Total100.00%130N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Domicile

Expression using "domicile": legal domicile. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Domicile

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

coach domicile

71

argent domicile gagner

4

domicile travail

61

domicile free

4

domicile traiteur

59

aide domicile à

4

domicile

44

coiffure domicile

4

affidavit of domicile

30

domicile vente

4

domicile personal trainer à

29

course domicile

4

domicile furniture

29

domicile florida

3

coach domicile à

29

domicile ottawa

3

domicile personal trainer

20

domicile star

3

domicile livraison

19

domicile livre repassage

3

domicile travail à

12

domicile strip tease

3

aide domicile

11

development domicile

3

domicile emploi

8

domicile internet remuneration travail

3

declaration domicile

8

des domicile sociologie soins à

3

domicile massage

6

d domicile emploi offre

3

domicile soins à

6

domicile pizza

3

domicile livraison à

5

domicile home

3

chef domicile

5

domicile hors restauration

3

banque domicile

5

domicile test

3

declaration domicile florida

4

affidavit domicile form

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Domicile

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

   

Portuguese

  

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)

   

Romanian

  

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)

   

Russian 

  

местожительство (dwelling place, dwelling-place, habitation, location, residence, residency). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

stanište (habitat, haft, lair, lodgement, lodgment, residence), stalno mesto boravka, prebivalište (abode, indwelling, residence). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

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)

   

Swedish

  

hemort (home port), bostad (abode, accommodation, diggings, dwelling, dwelling place, flat, habitation, home, housing, lodgings, place, quarters, residence). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ทำให้อยู่เป็นหลักแหล่ง, ที่พัก. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

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)

   

Ukrainian

  

постійне місце проживання (haft), поселити на постійне місце проживання. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

nh ở (tenement). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Domicile

Derivations

Words beginning with "domicile": domiciled, domiciles. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Anagrams: Domicile

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Domicile


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 6F 6D 69 63 69 6C 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01101111 01101101 01101001 01100011 01101001 01101100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#111 &#109 &#105 &#99 &#105 &#108 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 006F 006D 0069 0063 0069 006C 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3881797569757871

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Historic
9. Quotations: Fiction
10. Quotations: Non-fiction
11. Usage Frequency
12. Expressions
13. Expressions: Internet
14. Translations: Modern
15. Derivations
16. Anagrams
17. Orthography
18. Bibliography


  

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