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SLAVE
slave
(noun) a person who is owned by someone
slave, striver, hard worker
(noun) someone who works as hard as a slave
slave
(noun) someone entirely dominated by some influence or person; āa slave to fashionā; āa slave to cocaineā; āhis mother was his abject slaveā
slave, break one's back, buckle down, knuckle down
(verb) work very hard, like a slave
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
slave (plural slaves)
A person who is held in servitude as the property of another person, and whose labor (and often also whose body and life) is subject to the owner's volition and control.
(figuratively) A drudge; one who labors or is obliged (e.g. by prior contract) to labor like a slave with limited rights, e.g. an indentured servant.
(figuratively) An abject person; a wretch.
• Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
(figuratively) One who has no power of resistance (to something), one who surrenders to or is under the domination (of something).
(BDSM) A submissive partner in a BDSM relationship who (consensually) submits to (sexually and/or personally) serving one or more masters or mistresses.
Hypernym: sub
A sex slave, a person who is forced against their will to perform, for another person or group, sexual acts on a regular or continuing basis.
(engineering, computing, photography) A device (such as a secondary flash or hard drive) that is subject to the control of another (a master).
Hyponyms
• bossale, bozal
Coordinate terms
• chattel
• indentured servant
Verb
slave (third-person singular simple present slaves, present participle slaving, simple past and past participle slaved)
To work as a slaver, to enslave people.
(intransitive) To work hard.
(transitive) To place a device under the control of another.
Anagrams
• 'alves, Alves, Elvas, Levas, Selva, Veals, avels, evals, laves, salve, selva, vales, valse, veals
Proper noun
Slave (plural er-noun)
Alternative form of Slavey
Noun
Slave (plural Slaves)
Obsolete form of Slav.
Anagrams
• 'alves, Alves, Elvas, Levas, Selva, Veals, avels, evals, laves, salve, selva, vales, valse, veals
Source: Wiktionary
Slave, n.
Definition: See Slav.
Slave, n. Etym: [Cf. F. esclave, D. slaaf, Dan. slave, sclave, Sw. slaf, all fr. G. sklave, MHG. also slave, from the national name of the Slavonians, or Sclavonians (in LL. Slavi or Sclavi), who were frequently made slaves by the Germans. See Slav.]
1. 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. thou our slave, Our captive, at the public mill our drudge Milton.
2. 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.
3. A drudge; one who labors like a slave.
4. An abject person; a wretch. Shak. Slave ant (Zoƶl.), any species of ants which is captured and enslaved by another species, especially Formica fusca of Europe and America, which is commonly enslaved by Formica sanguinea.
– Slave catcher, one who attempted to catch and bring back a fugitive slave to his master.
– Slave coast, part of the western coast of Africa to which slaves were brought to be sold to foreigners.
– Slave driver, one who superintends slaves at their work; hence, figuratively, a cruel taskmaster.
– Slave hunt. (a) A search after persons in order to reduce them to slavery. Barth. (b) A search after fugitive slaves, often conducted with bloodhounds.
– Slave ship, a vessel employed in the slave trade or used for transporting slaves; a slaver.
– Slave trade, the busines of dealing in slaves, especially of buying them for transportation from their homes to be sold elsewhere.
– Slave trader, one who traffics in slaves.
Syn.
– Bond servant; bondman; bondslave; captive; henchman; vassal; dependent; drudge. See Serf.
Slave, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Slaved; p. pr. & vb. n. Slaving.]
Definition: To drudge; to toil; to labor as a slave.
Slave, v. t.
Definition: To enslave. Marston.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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