slave
/sleɪv/
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.31 in modern English
Meaning
noun
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.
noun
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.
noun
One who has no power of resistance to something, one who surrenders to or is under the domination of something.
noun
A submissive partner in a BDSM relationship who consensually submits to, sexually or personally, serving one or more masters or mistresses.
noun
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.
Example Sentences
- "Fear of their cargo bred a savage cruelty into the crew. One captain, to strike terror into the rest, killed a slave and dividing heart, liver and entrails into 300 pieces made each of the slaves eat one, threatening those who refused with the same torture. Such incidents were not rare."
- "Art thou the ſlaue that with thy breath haſt kill'd / Mine innocent child?"
- "a slave to passion, to strong drink, or to ambition"
- "Slave to the rhythm! / Keep it up, keep it up! / Never stop! Never stop!"
- "In the clip the black female “slave” dons a chain around her neck for which her white mistress possesses the key. The black woman sub is further disciplined by the power of speech—the force of silence."
- "If you administer your own reverse DNS zones, remember to include them in your slave configuration."