slave

Meanings

Plural: slaves

Noun

a person who is owned by someone
someone who works as hard as a slave
someone entirely dominated by some influence or person
- "a slave to fashion"
- "a slave to cocaine"
- "his mother was his abject slave"
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.
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.
An abject person.
One who has no power of resistance to something, one who surrenders to or is under the domination of something.
A submissive partner in a BDSM relationship who consensually submits to, sexually or personally, serving one or more masters or mistresses.
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.
A device (such as a secondary flash or hard drive) that is subject to the control of another (a master).

Verb

work very hard, like a slave
To work as a slaver, to enslave people.
To work hard.
To place a device under the control of another.

Origin / Etymology

Inherited from Middle English sclave, from Old French sclave, 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.
An alternative hypothesis derives sclavus from Ancient Greek σκῡλεύω (skūleúō), σκῡλάω (skūláō, “to strip or despoil a slain enemy”).

Synonyms

break one's back, buckle down, hard worker, knuckle down, secondary, slave, striver, worker, wretch

Antonyms

master, primary

Scrabble Score: 8

slave is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
slave is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
slave is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 10

slave is a valid Words With Friends word