Definition of Slave

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Definition of Slave

Slave

See Slav.

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.

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.

A drudge; one who labors like a slave.

An abject person; a wretch.

To drudge; to toil; to labor as a slave.

To enslave.

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Slave Quotations

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.
Thomas Jefferson

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.
Wayne Dyer

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
Helen Keller

A man in debt is so far a slave.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.
Aristotle

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.
Joseph Campbell

Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.
Walt Whitman

Slave Translations

slave in Afrikaans is slaaf
slave in Dutch is slaaf
slave in French is esclave
Slave in German is Sklave
slave in Hungarian is rabszolga
slave in Italian is schiava, schiavo
slave in Latin is famulus, servus
slave in Portuguese is escravo
slave in Spanish is esclavo
slave in Swedish is slav

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