Definitions for slave
sleɪvslave

Princeton's WordNet(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. slave(noun)

   a person who is owned by someone

2. slave, striver, hard worker(noun)

   someone who works as hard as a slave

3. slave(verb)

   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 down(verb)

   work very hard, like a slave

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. slave(Noun)

   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.

2. slave(Noun)

   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.

3. slave(Noun)

   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.

4. slave(Noun)

   A device that is controlled by another device.

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

5. slave(Noun)

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

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

6. slave(Verb)

   To work hard.

   I was slaving all day over a hot stove.

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

Webster Dictionary(4.33 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Slave(noun)

   see Slav

2. Slave(noun)

   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. Slave(noun)

   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. Slave(noun)

   a drudge; one who labors like a slave

5. Slave(noun)

   an abject person; a wretch

6. Slave(verb)

   to drudge; to toil; to labor as a slave

7. Slave(verb)

   to enslave

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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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1. slave

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British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

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

Anagrams for slave »

1. salve

2. avels

3. selva

4. vales

5. avels, salve, selva, vales

How to pronounce slave?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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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. Frederick Douglass:

   You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.

2. Joseph Addison:

   Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.

3. RAS CARDO REGGAE:

   ***(C)(P) MY REGGAE WAS CREATED TO TEACH THE MESSAGE OF TRUTH TO THE PEOPLE , ESPECIALLY THE YOUTHS. JAMAICAN YOUTHS AND OTHERS ALL OVER THE WORLD FACE A MOST DAUNTING AND DOUBTING FUTURE BECAUSE THEY WILL NOT KNOW THE TRUE HISTORY FROM WHICH THEY CAME. BLACK PEOPLE HAVE BEEN MIS -EDUCATED FOR YEARS. HOW MANY BLACK YOUTHS TODAY IN AMERICA KNOW ABOUT THE 1811-SLAVE REVOLT IN THE LOUISIANA -MANCHAR SWAMP? HOW MANY KNEW THAT -CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS- DID NOT DISCOVER AMERICA? HOW MANY YOUTHS IN JAMAICA KNEW THAT COLUMBUS DID NOT DISCOVER JAMAICA? AND WHAT ABOUT THE SLAVE REBELLION IN MORANT BAY? IF WE LOSE OUR HISTORY, WE LOSE OURSELVES AND IDENTITY AS A PEOPLE. MY REGGAE TEACHES THE PEOPLE.

4. Kathleen Bickford Berzock:

   It tells us a lot about the world we live in today to understand the long history of exchange and interaction on a global scale, it also helps people think about the history of Africa before western involvement in things like the Atlantic slave trade.

5. RAS CARDO REGGAE:

   **(C)(P) SO, I ASK AMERICA- WHAT COLOR OF SKIN PEOPLE HAVE YOUR-JOHN LOCKE- LIFE, LIBERTY, AND PROPERTY IN THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS PHILOSOPHY? VIOLENCE HAS ALWAYS BEEN WHAT DEFINES YOU. WHITES RAN FROM RELIGIOUS OPPRESSION AND PERSECUTION IN EUROPE TO AMERICA. BLACKS CAME TO AMERICA AS FORCED SLAVE LABOR TO WHITES ON PLANTATIONS. I WILL SAY TO AMERICA- VIOLENCE WILL NOT SAVE YOU. RACISM AND HATE WILL NOT SAVE YOU. EUGENICS WILL NOT SAVE YOU. JAH WILL MOVE THE EARTH FROM UNDER YOUR FEET. YOU STILL HAVE SOME TIME TO SAVE YOURSELF. NO ONE WINS A WAR. WISE UP!!!

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