slave Definition

slave
noun

1. historical
Someone owned by and acting as servant to another, with no personal freedom.
Thesaurus: captive, bondman, bondwoman, bondservant, serf, chattel, vassal.
2. A person who is submissive under domination.
3. A person who works extremely hard for another; a drudge.
4. A person submissively devoted to another.
5. A person whose life is dominated by a specific activity or thing.

Example: She's a slave to her work
Form: a slave to something (also)
6. A mechanism controlled by another mechanism, eg in computing, by a central processor, or by remote control.

verb

intr
slaved, slaving
1. To work like or as a slave; to work hard and ceaselessly.

Thesaurus: labour, toil, struggle, sweat, drudge.

Etymology: 13c: from French esclave, originally meaning a ‘Slav'.