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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: slave (0.01143 detik)
Found 3 items, similar to slave.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: slave abdi, budak, hamba
English → English (WordNet) Definition: slave slave adj : held in servitude; “he was born of slave parents” [syn: slave(a)] [ant: free] slave v : work very hard, like a slave [syn: break one's back, buckle down , knuckle down] slave n 1: a person who is owned by someone 2: someone who works as hard as a slave [syn: striver, hard worker ] 3: someone entirely dominated by some influence or person; “a slave to fashion”; “a slave to cocaine”; “his mother was his abject slave”
English → English (gcide) Definition: Slave Slave \Slave\ (sl[aum]v or sl[a^]v; 277) n. See Slav. [1913 Webster] Slave \Slave\ (sl[=a]v), n. [Cf. F. esclave, D. slaaf, Dan. slave, sclave, Sw. slaf, all fr. G. sklave, MHG. also slave, from the national name of the Slavonians, or Sclavonians (in LL. Slavi or Sclavi), who were frequently made slaves by the Germans. See Slav.] 1. A person who is held in bondage to another; one who is wholly subject to the will of another; one who is held as a chattel; one who has no freedom of action, but whose person and services are wholly under the control of another. [1913 Webster] Art thou our slave, Our captive, at the public mill our drudge? --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. One who has lost the power of resistance; one who surrenders himself to any power whatever; as, a slave to passion, to lust, to strong drink, to ambition. [1913 Webster] 3. A drudge; one who labors like a slave. [1913 Webster] 4. An abject person; a wretch. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Slave ant (Zo["o]l.), any species of ants which is captured and enslaved by another species, especially Formica fusca of Europe and America, which is commonly enslaved by Formica sanguinea. Slave catcher, one who attempted to catch and bring back a fugitive slave to his master. Slave coast, part of the western coast of Africa to which slaves were brought to be sold to foreigners. Slave driver, one who superintends slaves at their work; hence, figuratively, a cruel taskmaster. Slave hunt. (a) A search after persons in order to reduce them to slavery. --Barth. (b) A search after fugitive slaves, often conducted with bloodhounds. Slave ship, a vessel employed in the slave trade or used for transporting slaves; a slaver. Slave trade, the business of dealing in slaves, especially of buying them for transportation from their homes to be sold elsewhere. Slave trader, one who traffics in slaves. [1913 Webster] Syn: Bond servant; bondman; bondslave; captive; henchman; vassal; dependent; drudge. See Serf. [1913 Webster] Slav \Slav\ (sl[aum]v or sl[a^]v), n.; pl. Slavs. [A word originally meaning, intelligible, and used to contrast the people so called with foreigners who spoke languages unintelligible to the Slavs; akin to OSlav. slovo a word, slava fame, Skr. [,c]ru to hear. Cf. Loud.] (Ethnol.) One of a race of people occupying a large part of Eastern and Northern Europe, including the Russians, Bulgarians, Roumanians, Servo-Croats, Slovenes, Poles, Czechs, Wends or Sorbs, Slovaks, etc. [Written also Slave, and Sclav.] [1913 Webster] Slave \Slave\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Slaved; p. pr. & vb. n. Slaving.] To drudge; to toil; to labor as a slave. [1913 Webster] Slave \Slave\, v. t. To enslave. --Marston. [1913 Webster]

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