What does slave mean?

Definitions for slave
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. slavenoun

    a person who is owned by someone

  2. slave, striver, hard workernoun

    someone who works as hard as a slave

  3. slaveverb

    someone entirely dominated by some influence or person

    "a slave to fashion"; "a slave to cocaine"; "his mother was his abject slave"

  4. slave, break one's back, buckle down, knuckle downverb

    work very hard, like a slave

Wiktionary

  1. slavenoun

    A person who is the property of another person and whose labor and also whose life often is subject to the owner's volition.

  2. slavenoun

    A person who is legally obliged by prior contract (oral or written) to work for another, with contractually limited rights to bargain; an indentured servant.

  3. slavenoun

    A person who is forced against his/her will to perform, for another person or other persons, sexual acts or other personal services on a regular or continuing basis.

  4. slavenoun

    A device that is controlled by another device.

  5. slavenoun

    An information worker who has signed a non-compete clause in return for employment.

  6. slaveverb

    To work hard.

    I was slaving all day over a hot stove.

  7. Etymology: From <- sclave <- sclavus <- σκλάβος.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. SLAVEnoun

    One mancipated to a master; not a freeman; a dependant.

    Etymology: esclave, French. It is said to have its original from the Slavi, or Sclavonians, subdued and sold by the Venetians.

    The banish’d Kent, who in disguise
    Follow’d his enemy king, and did him service
    Improper for a slave. William Shakespeare, King Lear.

    Thou elvish markt, abortive, rooting hog!
    Thou that wast seal’d in thy nativity
    The slave of nature, and the son of hell. William Shakespeare, R. III.

    Of guests he makes them slaves
    Inhospitably. John Milton.

    Slaves to our passions we become, and then
    It grows impossible to govern men. Edmund Waller.

    The condition of servants was different from what it is now, they being generally slaves, and such as were bought and sold for money. South.

    Perspective a painter must not want; yet without subjecting ourselves so wholly to it, as to become slaves of it. Dryden.

    To-morrow, should we thus express our friendship,
    Each might receive a slave into his arms:
    This sun perhaps, this morning sun’s the last,
    That e’er shall rise on Roman liberty. Joseph Addison, Cato.

  2. To Slaveverb

    To drudge; to moil; to toil.

    Etymology: from the noun

    Had women been the makers of our laws,
    The men should slave at cards from morn to night. Jonathan Swift.

Wikipedia

  1. slave

    Slavery and enslavement are both the state and the condition of being a slave, who is someone forbidden to quit serving an enslaver, and is treated by the enslaver as property. Slavery typically involves slaves being made to perform some form of work while also having their location or residence dictated by the enslaver. Many historical cases of enslavement occurred as a result of breaking the law, becoming indebted, or suffering a military defeat; other forms of slavery were instituted along demographic lines such as race. Slaves may be kept in bondage for life or for a fixed period of time, after which they would be granted freedom. Although slavery is usually involuntary and involves coercion, there are also cases where people voluntarily enter into slavery to pay a debt or earn money due to poverty. In the course of human history, slavery was a typical feature of civilization, and was legal in most societies, but it is now outlawed in most countries of the world, except as a punishment for a crime.In chattel slavery, the slave is legally rendered the personal property (chattel) of the slave owner. In economics, the term de facto slavery describes the conditions of unfree labour and forced labour that most slaves endure.In 2019, approximately 40 million people, of whom 26 percent were children, were enslaved throughout the world despite it being illegal. In the modern world, more than 50 percent of slaves provide forced labour, usually in the factories and sweatshops of the private sector of a country's economy. In industrialised countries, human trafficking is a modern variety of slavery; in non-industrialised countries, enslavement by debt bondage is a common form of enslaving a person, such as captive domestic servants, forced marriage, and child soldiers.

ChatGPT

  1. slave

    A slave is a person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them, often involving being treated as a commodity that can be bought, sold, and owned. This dehumanizing system, historically prevalent in many societies, results in the denial of personal freedom and basic human rights. Slavery involves a wide variety of conditions and forms, including forced labor, human trafficking, child slavery, and debt bondage, among others.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Slavenoun

    see Slav

  2. Slavenoun

    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

  3. Slavenoun

    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

  4. Slavenoun

    a drudge; one who labors like a slave

  5. Slavenoun

    an abject person; a wretch

  6. Slaveverb

    to drudge; to toil; to labor as a slave

  7. Slaveverb

    to enslave

Wikidata

  1. Slave

    Slave was an Ohio funk band popular in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Trumpeter Steve Washington and Mark Hicks formed the group in Dayton, Ohio in 1975.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Slave

    slāv, 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. [O. Fr. esclave—Mid. High Ger. slave (Ger. sclave), from Slav, above.]

The Roycroft Dictionary

  1. slave

    A person with a servile mind, who quickly crooks the pregnant hinges of the knee, that thrift may follow fawning; who gratifies his wants either through cringing flattery or coercion, and who tyrannizes over others whenever he has a chance.

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British National Corpus

  1. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'slave' in Nouns Frequency: #2116

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of slave in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of slave in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of slave in a Sentence

  1. Augustine of Hippo:

    He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

  2. Martin Luther:

    I had a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons ofthe former slaves and the sons of the former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood

  3. Beto ORourkes:

    This is a country that has been defined by foundational, systemic, endemic racism since the very founding of this country, august 20th of 1619 - the first time that a kidnapped African was brought here against his will and made to serve as a slave to build the greatness and the success and the wealth of this country, which his descendants would never be able to fully participate in.

  4. Terpsichore Lindeman:

    The heaviest shackles and chains one can wear are those they cannot see. A slave with unseen shackles is the most bound.

  5. A.E. Samaan:

    Eugenics is not just a tool of totalitarianism. Eugenics, as it was conceived, could not be anything but totalitarian as it desired to control all aspects of society. Hitler’s “National Socialist” (Nationalsozialist) form of government was amongst the first to put the full force of its government to conduct compulsory health initiatives. It is by no coincidence that the Dachau concentration camp used its slave-labor to run the largest organic produce farm of the era.

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