Meaning

7 senses
  1. 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.

  2. (figuratively)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.

  3. (figuratively)An abject person.

    a person who is owned by someone

  4. (figuratively)One who has no power of resistance to something, one who surrenders to or is under the domination of something.

    a slave to passion, to strong drink, or to ambition

  5. A submissive partner in a BDSM relationship who consensually submits to, sexually or personally, serving one or more masters or mistresses.

    Sklave, Sklavin

  6. 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.

    Sexsklave, Sexsklavin

    рабrab, рабы́няrabýnja, раба́rabá

  7. A device (such as a secondary flash or hard drive) that is subject to the control of another (a master).

    Slave, Folgegerät

    ведо́мыйvedómyj, ведо́мое устро́йствоvedómoje ustrójstvo

Examples

303 sentences
  1. Tom treated Mary like a slave.

    Том поводився із Мері, як із рабинею.

    ruТом обращался с Мэри, как с рабыней.

    deTom behandelte Mary wie eine Sklavin.

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  2. Tom treats me like a slave.

    Том ставиться до мене, як до раба.

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  3. I'm not your slave.

    Я не твій раб.

    ruЯ не твой раб.

    deIch bin nicht dein Sklave.

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  4. I'm tired of being your slave.

    ruЯ устал быть твоим рабом.

    deIch bin es müde, dein Sklave zu sein.

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  5. Tom used to be a slave.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
person owned by another:
Русский
By meaning 2
person owned by another:
device that is controlled by another device:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
person owned by another:
person forced to perform sexual acts; (nonconsensual) sex slave:
device that is controlled by another device:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English sclave, from Old French esclave, from Medieval Latin sclavus

Inherited from Middle English sclave, from Old French esclave, from Medieval Latin sclavus (“slave”), from Late Latin Sclavus (“Slav”), traditionally assumed to be because Slavs were often forced into slavery in the Middle Ages. The Latin word is from Byzantine Greek Σκλάβος (Sklábos); see that entry and Slav for more. Displaced native Old English þēow. Thrall and bondsman/bondswoman, however, remain common synonyms. Doublet of ciao and Slav.

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