slavery

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Etymology

From slave +‎ -ery.

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Noun

slavery (usually uncountable; plural slaveries)

1. An institution or social practice of owning human beings as property, especially for use as forced laborers.
2. A condition of servitude endured by a slave.
3. (figuratively) A condition in which one is captivated or subjugated, as by greed or drugs.
   • 1818, Percy Bysshe Shelley,"The Revolt of Islam", canto 8, stanza 16,

     Man seeks for gold in mines that he may weave / A lasting chain for his own slavery.

See also

• debt bondage
• bonded labor
• bonded labour

Translations

institution or practice of owning human beings

Arabic: عبودية (ar) (3ubuudíyya) f. Armenian: ստրկատիրություն (hy) (strkatirut’yun) Bengali: দাসত্ব (bn) Chinese: Mandarin: 奴隸制度 (cmn), 奴隶制度 (cmn) (núlì zhìdù) Czech: otrokářství (cs) n. Danish: slaveri (da) n. Dutch: slavernij (nl) f. Esperanto: sklaveco (eo) Estonian: orjus (et) Finnish: orjuus (fi) French: esclavage (fr) m. German: Sklaverei (de) f. Greek: δουλεία (el) (douleía) f.

Haitian Creole: esklavaj Japanese: 奴隷制度 (ja) (どれいせいど, dorei seido) Latvian: verdzība (lv) f. Navajo: naaltéʼ Polish: niewolnictwo (pl) n. Portuguese: escravidão (pt) f. Romanian: sclavie (ro) Russian: рабство (ru) (rábstvo) n. Scottish Gaelic: tràillealachd (gd) f. Slovene: suženjstvo (sl) n. Spanish: esclavitud (es) f. Swahili: utwana (sw) Swedish: slaveri (sv) n. Volapük: slaf (vo)

condition of servitude endured by a slave

Armenian: ստրկություն (hy) (strkut’yun) Bosnian: ropstvo (bs) n. Catalan: esclavatge (ca) m. Czech: otroctví (cs) n. Danish: slaveri (da) n. Dutch: slavernij (nl) f. Estonian: orjus (et) Finnish: orjuus (fi) French: esclavage (fr) m. German: Sklaverei (de) f. Greek: δουλεία (el) (douleía) f. Haitian Creole: esklavaj

Kurdish: به‌نده‌گی Latvian: verdzība (lv) f. Navajo: naaltéʼ Polish: niewola (pl) f. Portuguese: escravidão (pt) f. Romanian: sclavie (ro) Scottish Gaelic: tràillealachd (gd) f. Slovene: suženjstvo (sl) n. Spanish: esclavitud (es) f. Swahili: utwana (sw) Swedish: slaveri (sv) n. Volapük: slaf (vo)

condition in which one is captivated or subjugated

Armenian: ստրկություն (hy) (strkut’yun) Bengali: দাসত্ব (bn) Czech: otroctví (cs) n. Danish: slaveri (da) n. Estonian: orjus (et) Finnish: orjuus (fi) French: esclavage (fr) m. German: Sklaverei (de) f. Greek: δουλεία (el) (douleía) f. Latvian: verdzība (lv) f.

Navajo: naaltéʼ Polish: niewola (pl) f. Portuguese: escravidão (pt) f. Romanian: sclavie (ro) Scottish Gaelic: tràillealachd (gd) f. Slovene: suženjstvo (sl) n. Spanish: esclavitud (es) f. Swahili: utwana (sw) Swedish: slaveri (sv) n. Volapük: slaf (vo)

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Translations to be checked

Dutch: slavernij f. Esperanto: sklaveco

Italian: schiavitù f. Norwegian: slaveri

References

• “slavery” in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
• slavery in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• “slavery” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.
• Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.