What does slave mean?
Definitions for slave
sleɪvslave
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word slave.
Princeton's WordNet
slavenoun
a person who is owned by someone
slave, striver, hard workernoun
someone who works as hard as a slave
slaveverb
someone entirely dominated by some influence or person
"a slave to fashion"; "a slave to cocaine"; "his mother was his abject slave"
slave, break one's back, buckle down, knuckle downverb
work very hard, like a slave
Wiktionary
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.
Etymology: From <- sclave <- sclavus <- σκλάβος.
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.
Etymology: From <- sclave <- sclavus <- σκλάβος.
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.
Etymology: From <- sclave <- sclavus <- σκλάβος.
slavenoun
A device that is controlled by another device.
Etymology: From <- sclave <- sclavus <- σκλάβος.
slavenoun
An information worker who has signed a non-compete clause in return for employment.
Etymology: From <- sclave <- sclavus <- σκλάβος.
slaveverb
To work hard.
I was slaving all day over a hot stove.
Etymology: From <- sclave <- sclavus <- σκλάβος.
Webster Dictionary
Slavenoun
see Slav
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
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
Slavenoun
a drudge; one who labors like a slave
Slavenoun
an abject person; a wretch
Slaveverb
to drudge; to toil; to labor as a slave
Slaveverb
to enslave
Freebase
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
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
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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Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'slave' in Nouns Frequency: #2116
Anagrams for slave »
salve
avels
selva
vales
avels, salve, selva, vales
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of slave in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of slave in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of slave in a Sentence
Now, going back to the broader issue, everyone here is in favor of this bill, and everyone here is against slave labor of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, and the only impediment is some House rule because this theoretically raises revenue, which it doesn't, then they should just pass the House version of the bill and send it here.
He who will not reason is a bigot he who cannot is a fool and he who dares not is a slave.
Given the practice of the DPRK to send North Koreans to Russia, who often work in slave-like conditions, it is feared that such a treaty could also be used to capture and repatriate workers who attempt to seek asylum.
I see the atheistic logic of skepticism as a karmic business. Businessmen are drug dealers, creating a business creates a new form of materialistic dependence of selfishness and self-interest. The creators of all kinds of entertainment and hobbies are slave traders, they create the meaning of life for you. Their goal is to distract you from life itself.
People now think: The pandemic means I can die tomorrow, and I have spent my whole life as a slave. I don’t want to do this anymore.
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- slaafAfrikaans
- عبدArabic
- qulAzerbaijani
- ҡолBashkir
- рабы́ня, рабBelarusian
- роб, роби́няBulgarian
- sklavBreton
- esclau, esclavaCatalan, Valencian
- лайChechen
- otrok, nevolník, nevolníce, otročit, otrokyněCzech
- чураChuvash
- slave, træl, trælkone, slavindeDanish
- Sklave, Sklavin, Sexsklave, Folgegerät, Sexsklavin, SlaveGerman
- δούλος, σκλάβα, δευτερεύων, υποσυσκευή, σκλάβοςGreek
- virsklavo, sklaviĉo, sklavo, sklavinoEsperanto
- esclavo, esclavaSpanish
- oriEstonian
- بردهPersian
- orja, seksiorja, raataaFinnish
- trælur, trællur, trælkonaFaroese
- serf, esclave, serveFrench
- sclábhaíIrish
- tràillScottish Gaelic
- escravo, escravaGalician
- sleabManx
- עבדHebrew
- दासHindi
- esklavHaitian Creole
- rabszolgaHungarian
- ստրուկArmenian
- hambaIndonesian
- sklavulo, sklavino, sklavoIdo
- þræla, púla, þrællIcelandic
- schiava, schiavo, sgobbareItalian
- 奴隷, スレーブJapanese
- მონაGeorgian
- құлKazakh
- inussiaqKalaallisut, Greenlandic
- 노예, 奴隸Korean
- кулKyrgyz
- servus, serva, sclavus, sclavaLatin
- ຂ້າLao
- vergasLithuanian
- vergsLatvian
- whakarīrā, mōkai taurekarekaMāori
- роб, робува, робинкаMacedonian
- hambaMalay
- slavinne, trell, trælkvinne, slave, trellkvinneNorwegian
- slavin, slaafDutch
- slave, trælkvinne, slavinne, trælNorwegian Nynorsk
- sexslave, seksualslaveNorwegian
- esclauOccitan
- niewolnica, niewolnikPolish
- escravo, escrava, mourejarPortuguese
- rob, sclav, servRomanian
- рабы́ня, раба́, раб, нево́льник, нево́льница, ведо́мый, ведо́мое устро́йствоRussian
- दासSanskrit
- isciabu, isciau, iscravu, isclavu, iscrau, sciauSardinian
- робо̀вати, роб, robòvati, robSerbo-Croatian
- otrok, otrokyňaSlovak
- sužnja, suženjSlovene
- skllav, robAlbanian
- slavinna, träl, slav, sexslavinna, slava, sexslavSwedish
- mtumwa, falahiSwahili
- దాసుడుTelugu
- ทาส, ข้าThai
- gulTurkmen
- kul, köleTurkish
- колTatar
- раб, раби́няUkrainian
- qulUzbek
- người nô lệ, nô lệ, 奴隸Vietnamese
- slafan, hislafan, jislafanVolapük
- 奴Chinese
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