slave
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- noun
- /sleɪv/
- In ancient Rome, a slave could be bought and sold like property, having no legal rights.
- slave trade
- former slave
- freed slaves
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Watch on YouTubeBut like there have been slaves for thousands of years.
- But like there have been slaves for thousands of years.
- And here they demand North Korean sex slaves for their needs.
- He was an African, a slave sold to a Roman senator.
- They are destined to be domestic slaves, to be married off.
- troops would return escaped slaves to Southern plantations.
- So he keeps this this pool, and he throws slaves who displease him in there.
- In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.
- It's about this tribe that traded slaves into the transatlantic.
- It would move to Mexico, it would create a slave holding Republic and empire.
- In the early Christian Church, slaves and masters would come and eat together.
- My parents didn't own a slave plantation.
- And the law was to to distinguish slaves by some kind of mark.
- But he had married somebody who was the daughter of a slave owner, I think.
- Old Arabic poetry tells about dark skinned foreign slaves called Habash.
Examples
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Naples had as many as twenty thousand slaves at any one time in the early seventeenth century.
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He was an African, a slave sold to a Roman senator.
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But like there have been slaves for thousands of years.
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The difference being that they are slaves rather than free men.
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And are we not the same slaves in the hands of the master?
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Having planted, where does the slave get the tools to harvest?
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After the war they used slaves to build the railroad from New York to San Francisco.
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The thing is that my ancestors were slaves and your ancestors were not.
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All the South has is slaves and cotton and arrogance.
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In fact, Ben purchased at least two slaves before ever leaving Edgecombe County.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
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A person or animal kept as a prisoner and not free
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A person in the Middle Ages who must work a lord's land and cannot leave
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A person who is kept as a slave and forced to work
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A person forced to row a ship as a slave, often meaning someone who does very hard work
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A person legally forced to work for another without pay
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A woman forced to work for another person without pay
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A person forced to work without pay for someone else
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A person who must work for another person by law, often like a servant in the past
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A woman who is owned by someone and forced to work
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A man who is forced to work for another person and has no freedom
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A woman held as a slave who is forced to work without pay
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
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A person who always follows the newest clothes styles, even when it costs money or comfort
Compounds
- NSFW
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Buying, selling, and moving people to force them to work, often from Africa to the Americas
- NSFW
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Someone who keeps another person as property and forces them to work for no pay
- NSFW
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A ship that carried people taken from their homelands to be forced to work across the Atlantic in the past
- NSFW
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A southern United States state where the law allowed people to own other people before the American Civil War
- Offensive
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A person forced to row a ship as a slave, often meaning someone who does very hard work
- NSFW
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The buying, selling, and moving of people to be forced to work, especially Africans taken to the Americas
- Specialized
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An ant that enters other ant nests and takes young ants to raise as workers
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A large lake in the Northwest Territories of Canada drained by the Mackenzie River
- Specialized
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An ant that another species takes as a baby and raises to work in its nest
- Specialized
An ant that attacks other ant nests and takes their young to raise as workers in its own nest
How Free
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- Archaic
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Slave comes from an old word sclavus, which came from the name Slav for people from Eastern Europe who were often captured and sold in the Middle Ages. That's why slave means a person who is owned and forced to work.