slave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: slāv
ipa: /sleɪv/
rhymes: -eɪv
Forms: form: slaves
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English sclave, from Old French sclave, from Medieval Latin sclavus (“slave”), from Late Latin Sclavus (“Slav”), traditionally assumed to be because Slavs were often forced into slavery in the Middle Ages. The Latin word is from Byzantine Greek Σκλάβος (Sklábos); see that entry and Slav for more. Displaced native Old English þēow. Thrall and bondsman/bondswoman, however, remain common synonyms. Doublet of ciao and Slav.
An alternative hypothesis derives sclavus from Ancient Greek σκῡλεύω (skūleúō), σκῡλάω (skūláō, “to strip or despoil a slain enemy”).
Senses: examples: text: Fear of their cargo bred a savage cruelty into the crew. One captain, to strike terror into the rest, killed a slave and dividing heart, liver and entrails into 300 pieces made each of the slaves eat one, threatening those who refused with the same torture. Such incidents were not rare.
ref: 1963, C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins, 2nd Revised edition, page 9:
glosses: 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.
glosses: 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.
examples: text: Art thou the ſlaue that with thy breath haſt kill'd / Mine innocent child?
ref: 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, Much Adoe about Nothing. […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
synonyms: wretch
glosses: An abject person.
examples: text: a slave to passion, to strong drink, or to ambition
text: Slave to the rhythm! / Keep it up, keep it up! / Never stop! Never stop!
ref: 1985, “Slave to the Rhythm”, in Slave to the Rhythm, performed by Grace Jones:
glosses: One who has no power of resistance to something, one who surrenders to or is under the domination of something.
examples: text: In the clip the black female “slave” dons a chain around her neck for which her white mistress possesses the key. The black woman sub is further disciplined by the power of speech—the force of silence.
ref: [2016, Ariane Cruz, The Color of Kink: Black Women, BDSM, and Pornography, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 39:
topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
hypernyms: sub
glosses: A submissive partner in a BDSM relationship who consensually submits to, sexually or personally, serving one or more masters or mistresses.
glosses: 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.
examples: text: If you administer your own reverse DNS zones, remember to include them in your slave configuration.
ref: 2011, Roderick W. Smith, LPIC-2 Linux Professional Institute Certification Study Guide, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
topics: arts
computing
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
photography
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: secondary
worker
antonyms: master
primary
glosses: A device (such as a secondary flash or hard drive) that is subject to the control of another (a master).
Synonyms: word: slave
Hypernyms: word: person
Hyponyms: word: bossale
word: bozal
word: slaveboy
word: slavegirl
word: slave-girl
word: sex slave
word: love slave
word: odalisque
word: comfort woman
word: bondslave
word: indentured servant
word: white slave
Coordinate terms: word: chattel
word: indentured servant
word: servant
Derived terms: antislave
antislaver
antislavery
app slave
beslave
blood-red slave-maker
bondslave
cock slave
debt slave
energy slave
enslave
enslavement
enslaven
enslaver
ex-slave
field slave
financial slave
footslave
fuckslave
galley-slave
galley slave
HM slave
houseslave
house slave
inslave
Lesser Slave River
love slave
master-slave manipulator
multislave
nonslave
no slave to fashion
postslavery
preslavery
proslaver
pseudoslave
semislave
sex slave
sexual slavery
slave ant
slave auction
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slave bracelet
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slave clock
slave code
slave cylinder
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slavedealing
slavedom
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Slave Dynasty
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slave fork
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what did your last slave die of
white slave
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