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slave

  • noun
  • slāv

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.

Other meanings

  1. 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.

  2. An abject person.

Related words

  • debt slave
  • antislave
  • antislaver
  • antislavery
  • beslave
  • blood-red slave-maker
  • bondslave
  • app slave
  • Slave Island
  • cock slave
  • energy slave
  • enslave

Word history

From Latin "Sclavus" (Slav).

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “slave” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.