domicile
B2CEFR level
55/100Rarity: uncommon
FormalRegister
General noun
The place that a person treats as their permanent and principal home.
For tax purposes he claimed a domicile in Jersey, though he rarely set foot there.
Law noun
The country a person treats as their permanent home and to which they intend to return.
His domicile of origin remained abroad despite decades of residence in the United Kingdom.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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