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Slave Sleɪv Person Noun Graduated Clafflin University South

Word3 slave
WordType (noun)
Phonetic /sleɪv/ /sleɪv/
Example
  • a former slave, he graduated from clafflin university in south carolina.
  • she treated her daughter like a slave.
  • a sex slave
  • slave owners
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slave

(noun)/sleɪv/ /sleɪv/
  1. a person who is owned by another person and is forced to work for them
    • SEE ALSO wage slave
      https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/wage-slave
    • A former slave, he graduated from Clafflin University in South Carolina.
    • She treated her daughter like a slave.
    • a sex slave
    • slave owners
    • freed slaves
    • Prisoners of war were regularly sold as slaves.
  2. a person who is so strongly influenced by something that they cannot live without it, or cannot make their own decisions
    • We are slaves of the motor car.
    • Sue's a slave to fashion.
  3. a device that is directly controlled by another one
  4. Word Origin

    • Middle English: shortening of Old French esclave, equivalent of medieval Latin sclava (feminine) ‘Slavonic (captive)’: the Slavonic peoples had been reduced to a servile state by conquest in the 9th cent.
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