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say it: SUR-vuh-tood
servitude is a noun meaning "state of subjection to an owner or master or forced labor imposed as punishment". It carries one recorded sense.
state of subjection to an owner or master or forced labor imposed as punishment
“penal servitude”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for servitude come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.