Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bondservant

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: bond-ser-vant
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An indentured servant.

Example Sentences

"The captain was an upstart, a product of the democratic idea operating upon the poor white man, the descendant of the indentured bondservant and the socially unfit."
"Would the lass but consent to go abroad in the unhallowed place at this awful season and hour of the night, she was as firmly handfasted to the Devil as if she had signed a bond with her own blood; for then, it seemed, the forces of good fled far away, the world for one hour was given over to its ancient prince, and the man or woman who willingly sought the spot was his bondservant forever."
"The New King James Version of the New Testament translates the word δοῦλος (doulos) as "bondservant" in 2 Peter 1:1 and Jude 1:1"

Etymology

From bond + servant.

Inflected Forms

bondservants (plural)

Questions

What does bondservant mean?: An indentured servant.
Where does bondservant come from?: From bond + servant.

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