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Definitions for Slave

[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] Photography . a subsidiary flash lamp actuated through its photoelectric cell when the principal flash lamp is discharged.
[6] Machinery . a mechanism under control of and repeating the actions of a similar mechanism. Compare master(def 19) .
[7] to work like a slave; drudge.
[8] to engage in the slave trade; procure, transport, or sell slaves.
[9] to connect (a machine) to a master as its slave.
[10] Archaic . to enslave.
[11] 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.
[12] a person legally owned by another and having no freedom of action or right to property
[13] a person who is forced to work for another against his will
[14] a person under the domination of another person or some habit or influence a slave to television
[15] a person who works in harsh conditions for low pay
[16] a device that is controlled by or that duplicates the action of another similar device (the master device) (as modifier ) slave cylinder
[17] (intr often foll by away ) to work like a slave
[18] (tr) an archaic word for enslave

Words related to Slave

laborer, servant, worker, serf, captive, victim, toil, chattel, help, toiler, vassal, thrall, retainer, drudge, peon, menial, workhorse, skivvy, grub, grovel

Words nearby Slave

slaughterhouse, slaughterman, slaughterous, slav, slav., slave, slave ant, slave bracelet, slave coast, slave cylinder, slave driver

Origin of Slave

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

Other words from Slave

slave·less , adjective
slave·like , adjective
pro·slave , adjective
sem·i·slave , noun

Word origin for Slave

C13: via Old French from Medieval Latin Sclāvus a Slav, one held in bondage (from the fact that the Slavonic races were frequently conquered in the Middle Ages), from Late Greek Sklabos a Slav

Synonyms for Slave

captive, laborer, serf, servant, victim, worker, chattel, drudge, help, menial, peon, retainer, skivvy, thrall, toiler, vassal, workhorse, bondservant, subservient