What part of speech is thrall?

Thrall can be categorized as a noun and a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. thrall is a verb, present, 1st person singular of thrall (infinitive).
  • 2. thrall is a verb (infinitive).
  • 3. thrall is a noun, singular of thralls.

Inflections

Verb

Noun

What does thrall mean?

Definitions

Verb

thrall - To make a thrall.

Noun

thrall - someone held in bondage
thrall - the state of being under the control of another person

Examples of thrall

#   Sentence  
1. noun The populace was in thrall to the dictator's whims.
2. noun Then with lowly downcast eye / she dropped her voice, and softly made reply. / "Ah! happy maid of Priam, doomed instead / at Troy upon a foeman's tomb to die! / Not drawn by lot for servitude, nor led / a captive thrall, like me, to grace a conqueror's bed."
Sentence  
noun
The populace was in thrall to the dictator's whims.
Then with lowly downcast eye / she dropped her voice, and softly made reply. / "Ah! happy maid of Priam, doomed instead / at Troy upon a foeman's tomb to die! / Not drawn by lot for servitude, nor led / a captive thrall, like me, to grace a conqueror's bed."

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