slave
English
/sleɪv/
noun
Definitions
- 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.
- (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.
- (figuratively) An abject person.
- (figuratively) One who has no power of resistance (to something), one who surrenders to or is under the domination (of something).
- (BDSM) A submissive partner in a BDSM relationship who (consensually) submits to (sexually and/or personally) serving one or more masters or mistresses.
- 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.
- (engineering) A device (such as a secondary flash or hard drive) that is subject to the control of another (a master).
Etymology
Derived from Old French sclave derived from Latin sclāvus, Sclāvus derived from Σκλάβος (Slav).
Origin
Σκλάβος
Gloss
Slav
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Jack English
- antislave English
- antislavery English
- beslave English
- bond English
- bondslave English
- bondslavery English
- born English
- boy English
- catcher English
- catching English
- dealer English
- dealing English
- disenslave English
- enslavable English
- enslave English
- enslaveable English
- enslavement English
- enslaven English
- enslaver English
- enslavest English
- enslaveth English
- ex-slave English
- fic English
- foot English
- footslave English
- fuck English
- fuckslave English
- geoslavery English
- girl English
- holder English
- holding English
- house English
- houseslave English
- inslave English
- jackslave English
- maker English
- making English
- master English
- neo-slavery English
- nonslave English
- nonslaveholder English
- nonslaveholding English
- owner English
- postslavery English
- preslavery English
- proslaver English
- proslavery English
- pseudoslave English
- pseudoslavery English
- reenslave English
- semislave English
- slaveborn English
- slaveboy English
- slavecatcher English
- slavecatching English
- slavedealer English
- slavedealing English
- slavedom English
- slavefic English
- slavegirl English
- slaveholder English
- slaveholding English
- slaveless English
- slavelessness English
- slavelike English
- slavemaker English
- slavemaking English
- slavemaster English
- slavened English
- slaveowner English
- slavery English
- slavest English
- slaveth English
- slavey English
- slavish English
- slavishly English
- slavishness English
- slavocracy English
- slavocrat English
- unslavish English
- Sclavus Latin
- Sclāvus Latin
- Slavus Latin
- sclavus Latin
- sclāvus Latin
- Sklave German
- Sklaventreiber German
- Sklaverei German
- Sklavin German
- versklaven German
- schiavo Italian
- Slaaf Dutch, Flemish
- esclavage French
- esclave French
- slave French
- *keh₂p- Proto-Indo-European
- slav Swedish
- sclábhaí Irish
- slave Danish
- *slověninъ Proto-Slavic
- sclave Old French
- sklavo Esperanto
- σκλάβος Greek (modern)
- slaue Manx
- sleab Manx
- sklafe, slave Middle High German
- Sclave Middle French
- Σκλάβος gkm
- esklav Haitian, Haitian Creole
- fic
- boy
- girl
- foot
- Jack
- fuck
- bond
- born
- owner
- maker
- house
- holder
- making
- dealer
- master
- slavey
- catcher
- inslave
- dealing
- slavery
- holding
- enslave
- slavish
- slaveth
- beslave
- slavest
- slavefic
- slaveboy
- ex-slave
- slavedom
- catching
- nonslave
- enslaver
- enslaven
- slavened
- antislave
- proslaver
- reenslave
- bondslave
- slavishly
- fuckslave
- semislave
- slaveborn
- slavelike
- enslaveth
- enslavest
- slaveless
- footslave
- slavocrat
- slavegirl
- jackslave
- unslavish
- preslavery
- disenslave
- geoslavery
- houseslave
- slaveowner
- slavemaker
- proslavery
- slavocracy
- enslavable
- slavemaking
- bondslavery
- postslavery
- slavemaster
- slavedealer
- neo-slavery
- enslavement
- antislavery
- slaveholder
- enslaveable
- slavishness
- pseudoslave
- slavecatcher
- slaveholding
- slavedealing
- slavelessness
- slavecatching
- pseudoslavery
- nonslaveholder
- nonslaveholding