slave
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4.7
- noun
- /sleɪv/
:
esclavo
- Slave to no master, a kingdom of our very own.
- slave of the passions
But are we free or are we slaves under gun mob law?
- But are we free or are we slaves under gun mob law?
- You are taught to be a slave, but you have broken free.
- You're not treated like you're a slave who's speaking to a master.
- Software is always the slave of its own history, its own legacy.
- They were compelled to treat their own population like slaves because, you know, NATO expanded.
- You know, your problem is the master slave relationship.
- Well, why we're not so you're a slave, but so that you could be a master,
- He looks at the team and the manager said I need a slave, sign him up.
- You make them trade and it's kind of like slaves.
Examples
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Always on the move, they never settle down, and are slaves to their own wills and gross appetites.
Academic text (2008) -
Give up, give up being a slave of technology.
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You are taught to be a slave, but you have broken free.
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And man, created to be king over nature, became its slave.
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We were slaves to a higher purpose.
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Without you and your people, many of us would still be slaves to the Empire.
Fiction book (1991) -
These primarily came from three sources, slaves, criminals, and free volunteers.
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Blacks and whites were all slaves to the land back then, rooted to it.
Fiction book (1992) -
She feels like a slave to her job, always working overtime without any appreciation.
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Many people are slaves to their smartphones, unable to disconnect even for a moment.
Synonyms
19
9.4
A person in the Middle Ages who must work a lord's land and cannot leave
1
9.9
A person forced to row a ship as a slave, often meaning someone who does very hard work
1
9.9
A person who must work for another person by law, often like a servant in the past
1
9.9
A person legally forced to work for another without pay
1
9.9
A woman who is owned by someone and forced to work
1
9.9
A woman forced to work for another person without pay
A person forced to work without pay for someone else
A man who is forced to work for another person and has no freedom
A woman held as a slave who is forced to work without pay
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
1
7.2
A person who always follows the newest clothes styles, even when it costs money or comfort
Compounds
- NSFW
17
3.6
Buying, selling, and moving people to force them to work, often from Africa to the Americas
- NSFW
15
6.9
Someone who keeps another person as property and forces them to work for no pay
- NSFW
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7.0
A ship that carried people taken from their homelands to be forced to work across the Atlantic in the past
- NSFW
3
7.9
A southern United States state where the law allowed people to own other people before the American Civil War
- Offensive
1
9.9
A person forced to row a ship as a slave, often meaning someone who does very hard work
A large lake in the Northwest Territories of Canada drained by the Mackenzie River
- Specialized
An ant that enters other ant nests and takes young ants to raise as workers
- Specialized
An ant that attacks other ant nests and takes their young to raise as workers in its own nest
- Specialized
An ant that another species takes as a baby and raises to work in its nest
- NSFW
The buying, selling, and moving of people to be forced to work, especially Africans taken to the Americas
How Controlled
Surface Forms
Etymology
A helpful way to remember the figurative use of slave — as in 'a slave to work' — is to think of the older meaning of slave as someone who was owned. So calling someone a slave to work or to their phone shows they are controlled or forced by that thing, not literally owned.