slave
IPA: sɫˈeɪv
noun
- 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.
- (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.
- 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).
- Synonym of Sclavia
- Alternative form of Slavey [An Athabascan First Nations people indigenous to the region near the Great Slave Lake in western Canada]
- Obsolete form of Slav. [A member of any of the peoples of Europe who speak the Slavic languages.]
verb
- To work as a slaver, to enslave people.
- (intransitive) To work hard.
- (transitive) To place a device under the control of another.
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Examples of "slave" in Sentences
- The troops emancipated the slaves.
- At that time, manumitting a slave was uncommon.
- At the bottom of society was a stratum of slaves.
- The poem expressly says that the slaves should be free.
- Manumission is the act of a slave owner freeing his or her slaves.
- The park was named to commemorate the freeing of the slaves in 1848.
- Slaves at the time were not liberated, but their children walked free.
- Under free trade, the trader is the master and the producer the slave.
- Lee did emancipate the slaves, yet he acted as if he owned the slaves.
- Manumission is the act of freeing slaves, done at the will of the owner.