Usually means: Person subjected to forced labor.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. Slave, slave: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. slave: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. slave: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. slave: Collins English Dictionary
  5. slave: Vocabulary.com
  6. Slave, slave: Wordnik
  7. slave: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Slave, slave: Wiktionary
  9. slave: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. slave: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. slave: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Slave, slave: Dictionary.com
  13. Slave, slave (n.), slave (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. slave: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Slave (Amen album), Slave (BDSM), Slave (James Reyne song), Slave (Rolling Stones song), Slave (Slave album), Slave (The Rolling Stones song), Slave (band), Slave (disambiguation), Slave, The Slave (Singer novel), The Slave (novel), The Slave: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Slave: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. slave: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. slave: Rhymezone
  19. slave: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. slave: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Slave: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. slave: Free Dictionary
  23. slave: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. slave: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. slave: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. slave: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. slave: CCI Computer
  2. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  3. slave: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. slave: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Slave: Africa Glossary
  2. SLAVE: Acronym Finder
  3. slave: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Slave: Easton Bible
  2. Slave: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Slave (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. slave, slave: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)
  2. Slave: Nikonians Photo Glossary
  3. Slave: Data Acquisition
  4. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  5. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See slaved as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  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.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (figuratively) An abject person.
noun:  (figuratively) One who has no power of resistance to something, one who surrenders to or is under the domination of something.
noun:  (BDSM) A submissive partner in a BDSM relationship who consensually submits to, sexually or personally, serving one or more masters or mistresses.
noun:  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.
noun:  (engineering, computing, photography) A device (such as a secondary flash or hard drive) that is subject to the control of another (a master).
verb:  To work[[ as a [[slaver, to enslave people.
verb:  (intransitive) To work hard.
verb:  (transitive) To place a device under the control of another.
noun:  Synonym of Sclavia
noun:  Alternative form of Slavey [An Athabascan First Nations people indigenous to the region near the Great Slave Lake in western Canada]
noun:  Obsolete form of Slav. [A member of any of the peoples of Europe who speak the Slavic languages.]

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