slavery

Other forms of slavery

plural

slaveries·

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 slavery

What does slavery mean?

slavery means "the state of being under the control of another person". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in slavery?

slavery has 3 syllables: sla-ve-ry. The stress falls on "sla". In IPA it is /ˈsleɪvɚi/.

What is another word for slavery?

Close synonyms include bondage, thrall, thralldom, thraldom, slaveholding. 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 slavery a common word?

slavery is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.