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Definition slave

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French sclave, from Medieval Latin scl?vus (“slave”), from Late Latin Scl?vus (“Slav”), because Slavs were often forced into slavery in the Middle Ages. The Latin word is from Byzantine Greek ??????? (Sklábos), see that entry and Slav for more.

Noun

slave (plural slaves)

1. A person who is the property of another person and whose labor (and sometimes also whose life) is subject to the owner's volition.
2. A person who is legally obliged by prior contract (oral or written) to work for another, with contractually limited rights to bargain; an indentured servant.
3. (figuratively) A drudge; one who labours like a slave.
4. (figuratively) One who has lost the power of resistance; one who surrenders to something.
5. (figuratively) An abject person; a wretch.
6. A submissive partner in a BDSM relationship who (consensually) submits to (sexually and/or personally) serving one or more masters or mistresses.
7. A person who is forced against their will to perform, for another person or group, sexual acts or services on a regular or continuing basis.
8. (engineering) A device that is controlled by another device.

Verb

slave (third-person singular simple present slaves, present participle slaving, simple past and past participle slaved)

1. (intransitive) To work hard.
2. (transitive) To enslave.
3. (transitive) To place a device under the control of another.

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