thraldom

Other forms of thraldom

plural

thraldoms·

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 thraldom

What does thraldom mean?

thraldom means "the state of being under the control of another person".

How many syllables are in thraldom?

thraldom has 2 syllables: thral-dom. The stress falls on "thral".

What is another word for thraldom?

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

thraldom is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.