Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
slave-maker is a noun meaning "an ant that attacks colonies of other ant species and carries off the young to be reared as slave ants". It carries one recorded sense.
an ant that attacks colonies of other ant species and carries off the young to be reared as slave ants
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for slave-maker come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.