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say it: slayv
slave is a noun and verb meaning "a person who is owned by someone". It carries 4 recorded senses.
a person who is owned by someone
someone who works as hard as a slave
someone entirely dominated by some influence or person
“a slave to fashion”
“a slave to cocaine”
“his mother was his abject slave”
work very hard, like a slave
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 slave 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.