Synonyms for slavery
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Noun
1. Bondage
bondage, enslavement, servitude, serfdom, captivity, vassalage, thrall, subjection, servility, bond service, thraldom UK, thralldom US, helotism
Definitions
- n. 1
An institution or social practice of owning human beings as property, especially for use as forced laborers.
The film portrays the brutality of slavery.
Related words
- Phrases
- debt slavery wage slavery
Forms
- Plural
- slaveries → bondages, enslavements, servitudes, serfdoms…
Example sentences
- bondage I'm into it, but could we try adding some bondage?
- servitude Every certitude is a kind of servitude.
- enslavement Enslavement is a crime against humanity.
- serfdom Serfdom in Russia was only abolished in 1861.
- drudgery Work is drudgery if you don't think it's meditative.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| slavery | rising | |
| bondage | rising | |
| servitude | steady | |
| enslavement | rising | |
| serfdom | falling | |
| drudgery | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 6 letters
- thrall1
- 7 letters
- bondage2, serfdom
- 8 letters
- drudgery3, thraldom, helotism4
- 9 letters
- captivity4, servitude3, vassalage, servility4, unfreedom, thralldom
- 10 letters
- subjection
- 11 letters
- enslavement3
- 12 letters
- slaveholding
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (bondage2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- esclavage
- Italiano
- schiavitù
- Deutsch
- Sklaverei
- Català
- esclavatge