name
Meaning 1
Alternative form of Slavey.
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Usage: alt-of, alternative
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name
Alternative form of Slavey.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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name
Synonym of Sclavia.
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Synonyms: Sclavia
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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.
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noun
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.
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Usage: figuratively
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noun
An abject person.
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Usage: figuratively
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Synonyms: wretch
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noun
One who has no power of resistance to something, one who surrenders to or is under the domination of something.
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Usage: figuratively
Synonyms: thrall
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noun
A submissive partner in a BDSM relationship who consensually submits to, sexually or personally, serving one or more masters or mistresses.
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Topics: BDSM, lifestyle, sexuality
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Broader terms: sub
noun
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.
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noun
A device (such as a secondary flash or hard drive) that is subject to the control of another (a master).
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Topics: arts, computing, engineering, hobbies, lifestyle, mathematics, natural-sciences, photography, physical-sciences, sciences
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Synonyms: secondary, worker
Antonyms: master, primary
noun
Alternative form of Slavey.
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noun
Obsolete form of Slav.
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Usage: alt-of, obsolete
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verb
To work as a slaver, to enslave people.
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verb
To work hard.
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Usage: intransitive
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verb
To place a device under the control of another.
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Usage: transitive
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noun
a person who is owned by someone
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
Narrower terms: bondman, bondsman, bondwoman, bondswoman, bondmaid, bond servant, creature, tool, puppet, galley slave, Scott, Dred Scott, Turner, Nat Turner, Vesey, Denmark Vesey
noun
someone who works as hard as a slave
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: striver, hard worker
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Broader terms: worker
noun
someone entirely dominated by some influence or person
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Broader terms: person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
verb
work very hard, like a slave
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: break one's back, buckle down, knuckle down
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Broader terms: work, do work
History
Etymology tree substrateder.? Proto-Indo-European *ḱlewH-der.? Proto-Slavic *slov- Proto-Slavic *-ǫta Proto-Slavic *Slov-? Proto-Balto-Slavic *-ēnas Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Slavic *-inъ Proto-Slavic *-ěninъ Proto-Slavic *slověninъder. Ancient Greek Σκλαβηνός (Sklabēnós)der. Byzantine Greek Σκλᾰ́βος (Sklắbos)bor. Late Latin Sclavus Medieval Latin sclavusbor. Old French esclavebor. Middle English sclave English slave 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”).
Across languages
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