Slave

[sleɪv] or [slev]

Definition

(noun.) a person who is owned by someone.

(noun.) someone who works as hard as a slave.

(noun.) someone entirely dominated by some influence or person; 'a slave to fashion'; 'a slave to cocaine'; 'his mother was his abject slave'.

(verb.) work very hard, like a slave.

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Definition

(n.) See Slav.

(n.) A person who is held in bondage to another; one who is wholly subject to the will of another; one who is held as a chattel; one who has no freedom of action, but whose person and services are wholly under the control of another.

(n.) One who has lost the power of resistance; one who surrenders himself to any power whatever; as, a slave to passion, to lust, to strong drink, to ambition.

(n.) A drudge; one who labors like a slave.

(n.) An abject person; a wretch.

(v. i.) To drudge; to toil; to labor as a slave.

(v. t.) To enslave.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [1]. Bondsman, vassal, SERF, thrall, bond-servant.[2]. Drudge.

v. n. Drudge, toil, moil.

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Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Bondman, thrall, vassal, drudge,[See CARNAGE]

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Definition

n. a captive in servitude: any one in bondage: a serf: one who labours like a slave: a drudge: one wholly under the will of another: one who has lost all power of resistance.—v.i. to work like a slave: to drudge.—adj. Slave′-born born in slavery.—ns. Slave′-drī′ver one who superintends slaves at their work; Slave′-fork a long and heavy branch into the forked end of which a slave's neck is fixed to prevent his escaping from the slave-trader's gang.—adj. Slave′-grown grown on land worked by slaves.—ns. Slave′-hold′er an owner of slaves; Slave′-hold′ing; Slave′-hunt a hunt after runaway slaves; Slā′ver a ship employed in the slave-trade; Slā′very the state of being a slave: serfdom: the state of being entirely under the will of another: bondage: drudgery; Slave′-ship a ship used for transporting slaves.—n.pl. Slave′-states those states of the American Union which maintained domestic slavery before the Civil War—Delaware Maryland Virginia North and South Carolina Georgia Florida Alabama Mississippi Louisiana Texas Arkansas Missouri Kentucky and Tennessee.—ns. Slave′-trade the trade of buying and selling slaves; Slave′-trā′der a trader in slaves; Slā′vey (slang) a domestic drudge a maid-servant.—adj. Slā′vish of or belonging to slaves: becoming slaves: servile: mean: base: laborious.—adv. Slā′vishly.—ns. Slā′vishness; Slāvoc′racy slave-owners collectively or their interests &c.; Slā′vocrat a member of the slavocracy.

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