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slaaf — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • Slav noun A member of one of the peoples of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe who speak a Slavic language, such as Russian, Polish, or Serbian.
  • 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

slaaf is used for these senses in English:

  • Slav A member of any of the peoples of Europe who speak the Slavic languages.
  • 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.
  • thrall (literary, or, puristic, otherwise, archaic) Slave; one under the control of another.

Slav — full definition

  1. noun A member of one of the peoples of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe who speak a Slavic language, such as Russian, Polish, or Serbian.
  2. adj Relating to Slavic peoples, languages, or culture.

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.

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