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noun
1.
a person who is the property of and wholly subject to another; a bond servant.
2.
a person entirely under the domination of some influence or person: a slave to a drug.
3.
a drudge: a housekeeping slave.
4.
a slave ant.
5.
EXPANDPhotography. a subsidiary flash lamp actuated through its photoelectric cell when the principal flash lamp is discharged.
verb (used without object)
7.
to work like a slave; drudge.
8.
to engage in the slave trade; procure, transport, or sell slaves.
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Slaves
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Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English sclave < Medieval Latin sclāvus (masculine), sclāva (feminine) slave, special use of Sclāvus Slavic, so called because Slavs were commonly enslaved in the early Middle Ages; see Slav
1250–1300; Middle English sclave < Medieval Latin sclāvus (masculine), sclāva (feminine) slave, special use of Sclāvus Slavic, so called because Slavs were commonly enslaved in the early Middle Ages; see Slav
Related forms
slave·less, adjective
slave·like, adjective
pro·slave, adjective
sem·i·slave, noun
Synonyms
7. toil, labor, slog, grind.
7. toil, labor, slog, grind.
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noun, plural Slaves, (especially collectively) Slave.
a member of a group of Athabaskan-speaking North American Indians living in the upper Mackenzie River valley region of the Northwest Territories and in parts of British Columbia, Alberta, and the Yukon Territory.
Also, Slavey.
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Word Origin & History
Slave
Indian tribe of northwestern Canada, 1789, from slave, translating Cree (Algonquian) awahkan "captive, slave."
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