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træl — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • slave noun A person legally owned by another and forced to work without freedom or pay.
  • thrall noun A person held as a slave or in servitude, under the total control of another.

Senses

træl is used for these senses in English:

  • slave 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.
  • slave 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.
  • thrall (literary, or, puristic, otherwise, archaic) Slave; one under the control of another.

slave — full definition

  1. noun A person legally owned by another and forced to work without freedom or pay.
  2. noun A person completely controlled by or devoted to something.
  3. noun A secondary device controlled by another (master) device.

thrall — full definition

  1. noun A person held as a slave or in servitude, under the total control of another.
  2. noun The state of being completely controlled or dominated by something.

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