enslavement

1. 1.

   the state of being a slave

   “So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity”

   Synonymscaptivity

   Broadersubjugation
2. 2.

   the act of making slaves of your captives

   Broadercapture

Other forms of enslavement

plural

enslavements·

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 enslavement

What does enslavement mean?

enslavement means "the state of being a slave". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in enslavement?

enslavement has 3 syllables: en-slave-ment. The stress falls on "slave". In IPA it is /ɛnˈsleɪvmənt/.

What is another word for enslavement?

Close synonyms include captivity. 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 enslavement a common word?

enslavement is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.