bondage

Other forms of bondage

plural

bondages·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bondage

What does bondage mean?

bondage means "the state of being under the control of a force or influence or abstract power". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bondage?

bondage has 2 syllables: bon-dage. The stress falls on "bon". In IPA it is /ˈbɑndɪdʒ/.

What is another word for bondage?

Close synonyms include slavery, thrall, thralldom, thraldom. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bondage a common word?

bondage is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.