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Etymology 1

From slave +‎ -eryCategory:English terms suffixed with -ery#SLAVERY.

Pronunciation

Noun

slavery (usually uncountable, plural slaveries)Category:English lemmas#SLAVERY Category:English nouns#SLAVERY Category:English uncountable nouns#SLAVERY Category:English countable nouns#SLAVERY Category:English entries with incorrect language header#SLAVERY Category:Pages with entries#SLAVERY Category:Pages with 1 entry#SLAVERY

An institution or social practice of owning human beings as property, especially for use as forced laborers.
abolition of slaveryCategory:English terms with collocations#SLAVERY

modern slaveryCategory:English terms with collocations#SLAVERY

slavery systemCategory:English terms with collocations#SLAVERY

Slavery was abolished in the nineteenth century.Category:English terms with usage examples#SLAVERY

The film portrays the brutality of slavery.Category:English terms with usage examples#SLAVERY
- 1866, James Buchanan, Mr. Buchanan's Administration on the Eve of the Rebellion‎, New York: D. Appleton and Company, →OCLC, →OL, page 9:
  THAT the Constitution does not confer upon Congress power to interfere with slavery in the States, has been admitted by all parties and confirmed by all judicial decisions ever since the origin of the Federal Government. This doctrine was emphatically recognized by the House of Representatives in the days of Washington, during the first session of the first Congress,* and has never since been seriously called in question. Hence, it became necessary for the abolitionists, in order to furnish a pretext for their assaults on Southern slavery, to appeal to a law higher than the Constitution.
  Slavery, according to them, was a grievous sin against God, and therefore no human Constitution could rightfully shield it from destruction. It was sinful to live in a political confederacy which tolerated slavery in any of the States composing it;[...]
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- 2014 July 31, Oliver C. Speck, editor, Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained: The Continuation of Metacinema‎, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 25:
  Thus Django becomes the carrier of the “public use of one's reason”—the Kantian road to enlightenment given to him by the German “Forty-Eighter” dentist–turned-bounty hunter Dr. “King” Schultz, and represents the fictive, allohistorical beginning of the battle against slavery and racism in the United States.
  Category:English terms with quotations#SLAVERY
Forced labor in general, regardless of legality.
A condition of servitude endured by a slave.
- c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act (please specify |act=I or II), scene ii:
  If you wil willingly remaine with me,
  You ſhall haue honors, as your merits be:
  Or els you ſhal be forc’d with ſlauerie.
  Category:English terms with quotations#SLAVERY
- 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: The Resistance Needs Volunteers:
  Our victories on Voeld are only the beginning of what we can achieve, but we can't defeat the enemy without your help. If you're tired of living in fear, if you believe we were meant for something greater than slavery, if you're willing to stand up and fight: you'll find a new family in the Resistance.
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(figuratively) A condition in which one is captivated or subjugated, as by greed or drugs.
- 1818, Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Revolt of Islam, canto 8, stanza 16:
  Man seeks for gold in mines that he may weave / A lasting chain for his own slavery.
  Category:English terms with quotations#SLAVERY
  Category:Quotation templates to be cleaned

Derived terms

Translations

institution or practice of owning human beings

Category:Entries with translation boxes#SLAVERY

Abkhaz: атәра́ (atʷʼrá)Category:Terms with Abkhaz translations#SLAVERY
Albanian: skllavëri (sq) fCategory:Terms with Albanian translations#SLAVERY
Arabic: عُبُودِيَّة f (ʕubūdiyya)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#SLAVERY, رِقّ (ar) m (riqq)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#SLAVERY
Armenian: ստրկատիրություն (hy) (strkatirutʻyun)Category:Terms with Armenian translations#SLAVERY, ստրկություն (hy) (strkutʻyun)Category:Terms with Armenian translations#SLAVERY
Asturian: esclavitú fCategory:Terms with Asturian translations#SLAVERY
Azerbaijani: quldarlıqCategory:Terms with Azerbaijani translations#SLAVERY
Belarusian: ра́бства n (rábstva)Category:Terms with Belarusian translations#SLAVERY
Bengali: দাসত্ব (bn) (daśotto)Category:Terms with Bengali translations#SLAVERY
Bulgarian: ро́бство (bg) n (róbstvo)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#SLAVERY
Catalan: esclavitud fCategory:Terms with Catalan translations#SLAVERY, esclavatge (ca) mCategory:Terms with Catalan translations#SLAVERY
Chinese:
Mandarin: 奴隸制度 / 奴隶制度 (núlì zhìdù)Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#SLAVERY
Czech: otrokářství (cs) nCategory:Terms with Czech translations#SLAVERY
Danish: slaveri (da) nCategory:Terms with Danish translations#SLAVERY
Dinka: ɣɔɔc de kɔcCategory:Terms with Dinka translations#SLAVERY
Dutch: slavernij (nl) fCategory:Terms with Dutch translations#SLAVERY
Esperanto: sklavecoCategory:Terms with Esperanto translations#SLAVERY
Estonian: orjandusCategory:Terms with Estonian translations#SLAVERY, orjapidamineCategory:Terms with Estonian translations#SLAVERY, orjus (et)Category:Terms with Estonian translations#SLAVERY
Faroese: trældómur mCategory:Terms with Faroese translations#SLAVERY
Finnish: orjuus (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#SLAVERY
French: esclavage (fr) mCategory:Terms with French translations#SLAVERY
Galician: escravitude (gl) fCategory:Terms with Galician translations#SLAVERY
Georgian: მონათმფლობელობა (monatmplobeloba)Category:Terms with Georgian translations#SLAVERY
German: Sklaverei (de) fCategory:Terms with German translations#SLAVERY
Gothic: 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌻𐌺𐌹𐌽𐌰𐍃𐍃𐌿𐍃 m (skalkinassus)Category:Terms with Gothic translations#SLAVERY
Greek: δουλεία (el) f (douleía)Category:Terms with Greek translations#SLAVERY
Ancient Greek: δουλεία f (douleía)Category:Terms with Ancient Greek translations#SLAVERY
Haitian Creole: esklavajCategory:Terms with Haitian Creole translations#SLAVERY
Hebrew: עַבדוּת (he) f ('avdút)Category:Terms with Hebrew translations#SLAVERY
Hindi: दासप्रथा (hi) f (dāsaprathā)Category:Terms with Hindi translations#SLAVERY, बंदगी (hi) f (bandgī)Category:Terms with Hindi translations#SLAVERY, ग़ुलामी f (ġulāmī)Category:Terms with Hindi translations#SLAVERY
Hungarian: rabszolgaság (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#SLAVERY
Icelandic: þrælahald nCategory:Terms with Icelandic translations#SLAVERY
Ingrian: orjusCategory:Terms with Ingrian translations#SLAVERY
Italian: schiavismo (it) mCategory:Terms with Italian translations#SLAVERY
Japanese: 奴隷制度 (どれいせいど, dorei seido)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#SLAVERY
Kazakh: құлдық (kk) (qūldyq)Category:Terms with Kazakh translations#SLAVERY
Korean: 노예 제도(奴隸制度) (noye jedo)Category:Terms with Korean translations#SLAVERY, 노례 제도(奴隸制度) (norye jedo)Category:Terms with Korean translations#SLAVERY (North Korea)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: xulamî (ku)Category:Terms with Northern Kurdish translations#SLAVERY
Kyrgyz: кулчулук (ky) (kulculuk)Category:Terms with Kyrgyz translations#SLAVERY
Lao: ລະບອບຂ້າທາດ (lo) (la bǭp khā thāt)Category:Terms with Lao translations#SLAVERY
Latin: servitūdō fCategory:Terms with Latin translations#SLAVERY
Latvian: verdzība (lv) fCategory:Terms with Latvian translations#SLAVERY
Lithuanian: vergovė fCategory:Terms with Lithuanian translations#SLAVERY
Macedonian: ропство n (ropstvo)Category:Terms with Macedonian translations#SLAVERY
Malay: perhambaanCategory:Terms with Malay translations#SLAVERY
Middle English: thraldomCategory:Terms with Middle English translations#SLAVERY
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: боолчлол (mn) (boolčlol)Category:Terms with Mongolian translations#SLAVERY
Norwegian:
Bokmål: slaveri (no) nCategory:Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations#SLAVERY
Old English: þēowet mCategory:Terms with Old English translations#SLAVERY
Oromo: garbummaaCategory:Terms with Oromo translations#SLAVERY
Pashto: بردګي f (bardagi)Category:Terms with Pashto translations#SLAVERY, بندګي f (bandagi)Category:Terms with Pashto translations#SLAVERY, غلامي f (ǧolāmi)Category:Terms with Pashto translations#SLAVERY
Persian: برده‌داری (barde-dâri)Category:Terms with Persian translations#SLAVERY, غلام‌داری (ġolâm-dâri)Category:Terms with Persian translations#SLAVERY, بردگی (fa) (bardegi)Category:Terms with Persian translations#SLAVERY, غلامی (fa) (ġolâmi)Category:Terms with Persian translations#SLAVERY
Plautdietsch: Sklowarie fCategory:Terms with Plautdietsch translations#SLAVERY
Polish: niewolnictwo (pl) nCategory:Terms with Polish translations#SLAVERY
Portuguese: escravidão (pt) fCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#SLAVERY, escravatura (pt) fCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#SLAVERY
Romanian: sclavie (ro) fCategory:Terms with Romanian translations#SLAVERY, robie (ro) fCategory:Terms with Romanian translations#SLAVERY
Russian: ра́бство (ru) n (rábstvo)Category:Terms with Russian translations#SLAVERY, нево́ля (ru) f (nevólja)Category:Terms with Russian translations#SLAVERY
Scottish Gaelic: tràillealachd fCategory:Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations#SLAVERY
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ро̀пство nCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#SLAVERY

Latin: ròpstvo (sh) nCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#SLAVERY
Slovak: otrokárstvo nCategory:Terms with Slovak translations#SLAVERY
Slovene: suženjstvo (sl) nCategory:Terms with Slovene translations#SLAVERY
Spanish: esclavitud (es) fCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#SLAVERY
Sranan Tongo: katiboCategory:Terms with Sranan Tongo translations#SLAVERY
Swahili: utumwa (sw) class 11Category:Terms with Swahili translations#SLAVERY
Swedish: slaveri (sv) nCategory:Terms with Swedish translations#SLAVERY
Tagalog: pagkaalipinCategory:Terms with Tagalog translations#SLAVERY
Tajik: ғуломдорӣ (ġulomdori)Category:Terms with Tajik translations#SLAVERY, ғуломӣ (ġulomi)Category:Terms with Tajik translations#SLAVERY
Tamil: அடிமை முறை (aṭimai muṟai)Category:Terms with Tamil translations#SLAVERY
Tatar: коллык (qollıq)Category:Terms with Tatar translations#SLAVERY
Telugu: దాస్యము (te) (dāsyamu)Category:Terms with Telugu translations#SLAVERY, దాసితనము (te) (dāsitanamu)Category:Terms with Telugu translations#SLAVERY
Thai: ความเป็นทาส (kwaam-bpen-tâat)Category:Terms with Thai translations#SLAVERY
Tibetan: བཀོལ་སྤྱོད (bkol spyod)Category:Terms with Tibetan translations#SLAVERY, བཀོལ་གཅོད (bkol gcod)Category:Terms with Tibetan translations#SLAVERY
Tocharian B: mañiññe ?Category:Requests for gender in Tocharian B entries#SLAVERY Category:Terms with Tocharian B translations#SLAVERY
Turkish: kölelik (tr)Category:Terms with Turkish translations#SLAVERY
Ottoman Turkish: اسیرلك (esirlik)Category:Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations#SLAVERY
Ukrainian: ра́бство n (rábstvo)Category:Terms with Ukrainian translations#SLAVERY
Urdu: غلامی f (ġulāmī)Category:Terms with Urdu translations#SLAVERY
Uyghur: قۇللۇق (qulluq)Category:Terms with Uyghur translations#SLAVERY
Uzbek: qullik (uz)Category:Terms with Uzbek translations#SLAVERY, quldorlik (uz)Category:Terms with Uzbek translations#SLAVERY
Vietnamese: chế độ nô lệCategory:Terms with Vietnamese translations#SLAVERY
Volapük: slaf (vo)Category:Terms with Volapük translations#SLAVERY
Yiddish: שקלאַפֿערײַ n (shklaferay)Category:Terms with Yiddish translations#SLAVERY

condition of servitude endured by a slave

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Armenian: ստրկություն (hy) (strkutʻyun)Category:Terms with Armenian translations#SLAVERY
Belarusian: ра́бства n (rábstva)Category:Terms with Belarusian translations#SLAVERY
Bengali: দাসত্ব (bn) (daśotto)Category:Terms with Bengali translations#SLAVERY
Bulgarian: ро́бство (bg) n (róbstvo)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#SLAVERY
Catalan: esclavatge (ca) mCategory:Terms with Catalan translations#SLAVERY
Czech: otroctví (cs) nCategory:Terms with Czech translations#SLAVERY
Danish: slaveri (da) nCategory:Terms with Danish translations#SLAVERY
Dutch: slavernij (nl) fCategory:Terms with Dutch translations#SLAVERY
Esperanto: sklavecoCategory:Terms with Esperanto translations#SLAVERY
Estonian: orjus (et)Category:Terms with Estonian translations#SLAVERY
Finnish: orjuus (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#SLAVERY
French: esclavage (fr) mCategory:Terms with French translations#SLAVERY
Georgian: მონობა (monoba)Category:Terms with Georgian translations#SLAVERY
German: Sklaverei (de) fCategory:Terms with German translations#SLAVERY
Greek: δουλεία (el) f (douleía)Category:Terms with Greek translations#SLAVERY
Ancient Greek: ἀνδραποδωδία f (andrapodōdía)Category:Terms with Ancient Greek translations#SLAVERY
Haitian Creole: esklavajCategory:Terms with Haitian Creole translations#SLAVERY
Icelandic: þrælahald nCategory:Terms with Icelandic translations#SLAVERY
Ingrian: orjusCategory:Terms with Ingrian translations#SLAVERY
Irish: sclábhaíocht fCategory:Terms with Irish translations#SLAVERY
Italian: schiavitù (it) fCategory:Terms with Italian translations#SLAVERY
Kannada: ಗುಲಾಮಗಿರಿ (kn) (gulāmagiri)Category:Terms with Kannada translations#SLAVERY
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: بەندەگی (bendegî)Category:Terms with Central Kurdish translations#SLAVERY
Latin: servitium nCategory:Terms with Latin translations#SLAVERY, servitus fCategory:Terms with Latin translations#SLAVERY
Latvian: verdzība (lv) fCategory:Terms with Latvian translations#SLAVERY
Malayalam: അടിമത്തം (ml) (aṭimattaṁ)Category:Terms with Malayalam translations#SLAVERY
Māori: ponongatangaCategory:Terms with Māori translations#SLAVERY
Middle English: thraldomCategory:Terms with Middle English translations#SLAVERY
Old English: þēowet mCategory:Terms with Old English translations#SLAVERY
Polish: niewola (pl) fCategory:Terms with Polish translations#SLAVERY
Portuguese: escravidão (pt) fCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#SLAVERY
Punjabi: ਗ਼ੁਲਾਮੀ (ġulāmī)Category:Terms with Punjabi translations#SLAVERY, ਦਾਸਤਾ (dāstā)Category:Terms with Punjabi translations#SLAVERY
Romanian: sclavie (ro) fCategory:Terms with Romanian translations#SLAVERY
Russian: ра́бство (ru) n (rábstvo)Category:Terms with Russian translations#SLAVERY
Scottish Gaelic: tràillealachd fCategory:Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations#SLAVERY, òglachas mCategory:Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations#SLAVERY
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ро̀пство nCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#SLAVERY

Latin: ròpstvo (sh) nCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#SLAVERY
Sindhi: غلامي (ġlāme)Category:Terms with Sindhi translations#SLAVERY
Sinhalese: වහල්භාවය (wahalbhāwaya)Category:Terms with Sinhalese translations#SLAVERY
Slovak: otrokárstvo nCategory:Terms with Slovak translations#SLAVERY
Slovene: suženjstvo (sl) nCategory:Terms with Slovene translations#SLAVERY
Spanish: esclavitud (es) fCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#SLAVERY
Sranan Tongo: katiboCategory:Terms with Sranan Tongo translations#SLAVERY
Swahili: utumwa (sw) class 11Category:Terms with Swahili translations#SLAVERY
Swedish: slaveri (sv) nCategory:Terms with Swedish translations#SLAVERY
Tagalog: pagkaalipinCategory:Terms with Tagalog translations#SLAVERY
Tamil: அடிமை முறை (aṭimai muṟai)Category:Terms with Tamil translations#SLAVERY
Telugu: బానిసత్వము (te) (bānisatvamu)Category:Terms with Telugu translations#SLAVERY
Thai: ความเป็นทาส (kwaam-bpen-tâat)Category:Terms with Thai translations#SLAVERY
Tibetan: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Tibetan#SLAVERY
Tocharian B: mañiññe ?Category:Requests for gender in Tocharian B entries#SLAVERY Category:Terms with Tocharian B translations#SLAVERY
Turkish:
Ottoman Turkish: اسیرلك (esirlik)Category:Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations#SLAVERY
Ukrainian: ра́бство n (rábstvo)Category:Terms with Ukrainian translations#SLAVERY
Volapük: slaf (vo)Category:Terms with Volapük translations#SLAVERY

condition in which one is captivated or subjugated

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Armenian: ստրկություն (hy) (strkutʻyun)Category:Terms with Armenian translations#SLAVERY
Azerbaijani: əsarətCategory:Terms with Azerbaijani translations#SLAVERY
Bengali: দাসত্ব (bn) (daśotto)Category:Terms with Bengali translations#SLAVERY
Catalan: esclavitud fCategory:Terms with Catalan translations#SLAVERY
Czech: otroctví (cs) nCategory:Terms with Czech translations#SLAVERY
Danish: slaveri (da) nCategory:Terms with Danish translations#SLAVERY
Estonian: orjus (et)Category:Terms with Estonian translations#SLAVERY
Finnish: orjuus (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#SLAVERY
French: esclavage (fr) mCategory:Terms with French translations#SLAVERY
Georgian: მონობა (monoba)Category:Terms with Georgian translations#SLAVERY
German: Sklaverei (de) fCategory:Terms with German translations#SLAVERY
Greek: δουλεία (el) f (douleía)Category:Terms with Greek translations#SLAVERY
Ingrian: orjusCategory:Terms with Ingrian translations#SLAVERY
Latvian: verdzība (lv) fCategory:Terms with Latvian translations#SLAVERY
Middle English: thraldomCategory:Terms with Middle English translations#SLAVERY
Old English: þēowet mCategory:Terms with Old English translations#SLAVERY
Polish: niewola (pl) fCategory:Terms with Polish translations#SLAVERY
Portuguese: escravidão (pt) fCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#SLAVERY
Romanian: sclavie (ro) fCategory:Terms with Romanian translations#SLAVERY
Russian: ра́бство (ru) n (rábstvo)Category:Terms with Russian translations#SLAVERY, нево́ля (ru) f (nevólja)Category:Terms with Russian translations#SLAVERY
Scottish Gaelic: tràillealachd fCategory:Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations#SLAVERY
Slovene: suženjstvo (sl) nCategory:Terms with Slovene translations#SLAVERY
Spanish: esclavitud (es) fCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#SLAVERY
Sranan Tongo: katiboCategory:Terms with Sranan Tongo translations#SLAVERY
Swedish: slaveri (sv) nCategory:Terms with Swedish translations#SLAVERY
Tagalog: pagkaalipinCategory:Terms with Tagalog translations#SLAVERY
Telugu: బానిసత్వం (te) (bānisatvaṁ)Category:Terms with Telugu translations#SLAVERY
Tibetan: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Tibetan#SLAVERY
Turkish:
Ottoman Turkish: اسیرلك (esirlik)Category:Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations#SLAVERY
Volapük: slaf (vo)Category:Terms with Volapük translations#SLAVERY

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Translations to be checked

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Dutch: ^{(please verify)} slavernij (nl) fCategory:Terms with Dutch translations#SLAVERY Category:Requests for review of Dutch translations#SLAVERY
Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} sklavecoCategory:Terms with Esperanto translations#SLAVERY Category:Requests for review of Esperanto translations#SLAVERY
Italian: ^{(please verify)} schiavitù (it) fCategory:Terms with Italian translations#SLAVERY Category:Requests for review of Italian translations#SLAVERY

Etymology 2

From slaver +‎ -yCategory:English terms suffixed with -y#SLAVERY.

Pronunciation

Adjective

slavery (comparative more slavery, superlative most slavery)Category:English lemmas#SLAVERY Category:English adjectives#SLAVERY Category:English entries with incorrect language header#SLAVERY Category:Pages with entries#SLAVERY Category:Pages with 1 entry#SLAVERY

Covered in slaver; slobbery.
- 2014, Lisa Williamson, Echoes of Elder Times Collection:
  The giant snow bear, the wolf with slavery jaws or the claws of the silent great cats were all a part. Creatures of man's oldest nightmares were the other side of that face.
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Anagrams

Laverys, Varleys

Category:en:Slavery#SLAVERY Category:English heteronyms#SLAVERY

Wikimore

slavery

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Noun

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Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Adjective

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