Definition of slave Slave
/slejĖv/ - [sleyv] - slave
We found 21 definitions of slave from 6 different sources.
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What does slave mean?
WordNet
NounPlural: slaves |
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| slave - a person who is owned by someone | ||
| mortal, somebody, someone, individual, person, soul a single organism | ||
| bondman, bondsman a male slave | ||
| bondmaid, bondwoman, bondswoman a female slave | ||
| bond servant someone bound to labor without wages | ||
| creature, puppet, tool a human being; `wight' is an archaic term | ||
| galley slave a slave condemned to row in a galley | ||
| slave - someone who works as hard as a slave | ||
| striver, hard worker | ||
| worker sterile member of a colony of social insects that forages for food and cares for the larvae | ||
| slave - someone entirely dominated by some influence or person; "a slave to fashion"; "a slave to cocaine"; "his mother was his abject slave" | ||
Verb |
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| slave - work very hard, like a slave | ||
| break one's back, buckle down, knuckle down | ||
| do work, work arrive at a certain condition through repeated motion; "The stitches of the hem worked loose after she wore the skirt many times" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- 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. - 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 . - 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. - slave (Noun)
A device that is controlled by another device. - slave (Verb)
To work hard. - slave (Verb)
To enslave.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary š
- slave (n.)
See Slav. - slave (n.)
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. - slave (n.)
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. - slave (n.)
A drudge; one who labors like a slave. - slave (n.)
An abject person; a wretch. - slave (v. i.)
To drudge; to toil; to labor as a slave. - slave (v. t.)
To enslave.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ī©
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slave
A person who is owned and forced to work, usually without pay, by another. -
slave
A woman who is owned and forced to work, usually without pay, by another.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary š
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slave
slÄv, 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.āv.i. to work like a slave: to drudge.āadj. Slaveā²-born, born in slavery.āns. Slaveā²-drÄ«ā²ver, one who superintends slaves at their work; Slaveā²-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.āadj. Slaveā²-grown, grown on land worked by slaves.āns. Slaveā²-holdā²er, an owner of slaves; Slaveā²-holdā²ing; Slaveā²-hunt, a hunt after runaway slaves; SlÄā²ver, a ship employed in the slave-trade; SlÄā²very, the state of being a slave: serfdom: the state of being entirely under the will of another: bondage: drudgery; Slaveā²-ship, a ship used for transporting slaves.ān.pl. Slaveā²-states, those states of the American Union which maintained domestic slavery before the Civil WarāDelaware, Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, Kentucky, and Tennessee.āns. Slaveā²-trade, the trade of buying and selling slaves; Slaveā²-trÄā²der, a trader in slaves; SlÄā²vey (slang), a domestic drudge, a maid-servant.āadj. SlÄā²vish, of or belonging to slaves: becoming slaves: servile: mean: base: laborious.āadv. SlÄā²vishly.āns. SlÄā²vishness; SlÄvocā²racy, slave-owners collectively, or their interests, &c.; SlÄā²vocrat, a member of the slavocracy. [O. Fr. esclaveāMid. High Ger. slave (Ger. sclave), from Slav, above.]
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