slave
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slave/sleɪv/
▶noun
- 1 historical a person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them.
■ a person who is excessively dependent upon or controlled by something: a slave to fashion.
- 2 a device, or part of one, directly controlled by another. Compare with master1.
- 1 work excessively hard.
- 2 (as noun slaving) historical the action or process of enslaving people.
- 3 subject (a device) to control by another.
– origin ME: shortening of OFr. esclave, equivalent of med. L. sclava (fem.) ‘Slavonic (captive)’.
'slave' also found in these Oxford entries:
amanuensis
- apostate
- bad faith
- blackbird
- bondage
- bondsman
- ciao
- concierge
- coolie
- doula
- dulia
- emancipate
- enfranchise
- enslave
- freedman
- freeman
- helot
- hybrid
- libertine
- Mameluke
- Maroon
- Mason–Dixon Line
- master
- middle passage
- odalisque
- patron
- pedagogue
- predial
- quassia
- river
- serf
- serve
- service
- servile
- servitude
- servo
- slave bangle
- slave-driver
- slave labour
- slavery
- slave state
- slave trade
- Slavey
- Spartacist
- thrall
- wage slave
- white slave
