Slave

Quick meaning: Slave is a noun meaning (figuratively) An abject person.

Meaning

(figuratively) An abject person.

More Meanings

1. (figuratively) One who has no power of resistance to something, one who surrenders to or is under the domination of something.
2. To work as a slaver, to enslave people.
3. 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.
4. (figuratively) 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.
5. (BDSM) A submissive partner in a BDSM relationship who consensually submits to, sexually or personally, serving one or more masters or mistresses.
6. 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.
7. (engineering, computing, photography) A device (such as a secondary flash or hard drive) that is subject to the control of another (a master).

Example Sentences

a slave to passion, to strong drink, or to ambition

MASSINISSA: Wilt thou be slaved? SOPHONISBA: No, free

Slave to the rhythm! / Keep it up, keep it up! / Never stop! Never stop!

Art thou the ſlaue that with thy breath haſt kill'd / Mine innocent child?

Word Forms

• slaves
• slaving
• slaved

Synonyms for slave

Depending on context, synonyms include wretch, thrall, secondary, worker, striver.

Antonyms for slave

Common opposites include master, primary.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include slaveholding, servile, bond, striver, enthralled, enslaved.

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