Definitions for slaves

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slaves slave

Spelling: [sleyv]

IPA: /sleɪv/

Slaves is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 98 anagrams from letters in slaves (aelssv).

Definitions for slaves

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:
3. a drudge:
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. 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.

verb (used with object)

1. to connect (a machine) to a master as its slave.
2. Archaic. to enslave.

verb (used without object)

1. to work like a slave; drudge.
2. to engage in the slave trade; procure, transport, or sell slaves.

Origin of slaves

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

Examples for slaves

No one of our kindred must enter the family of Pericles as a slave.

Had she been his slave, he might have become a very unyielding or a very heedless despot.

A little of it is all right—but don't be a slave to your passions.

He said, too, that after being accepted as a slave to Mistress Couple, he has made massive strides psychologically.

The spirit and the gifts of freedom ill assort with the condition of a slave.

By giving an artistic veto to a madman, we submit to the mindset of a slave.

Targeting her upper back, Couple sat cross-legged on a table while she whipped her slave.

The Athenian slave laws were much more mild than modern codes.

Now that Collette had left La Domaine, who was she a slave to, Collette or R?

In the Bible, Moses does kill a guy—the Egyptian slave master who is beating an Israelite to death.