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slav — 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.

Senses

slav 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.
  • slave (BDSM) A submissive partner in a BDSM relationship who consensually submits to, sexually or personally, serving one or more masters or mistresses.
  • 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.
  • slave (engineering, computing, photography) A device (such as a secondary flash or hard drive) that is subject to the control of another (a master).

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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