Loading page
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 is pronounced /ˈsɝvəˌtud/ — SUR-vuh-tood. 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.