slavery

English

Etymology 1

From slave +‎ -ery.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsleɪvəɹi/

• Audio (US)

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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.
   • 2014 July 31, Oliver C. Speck, editor, Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained: The Continuation of Metacinema‎^[1], Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 25:

     Thus Django becomes the carrier of the “public use of one's reason”—the Kantian road to enlightenment given to him by the German “Forty-Eighter” dentist–turned-bounty hunter Dr. “King” Schultz, and represents the fictive, allohistorical beginning of the battle against slavery and racism in the United States.

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.

Translations

institution or practice of owning human beings

• Albanian: skllavëri (sq) f
• Arabic: عُبُودِيَّة f (ʕubūdiyya)
• Armenian: ստրկատիրություն (hy) (strkatirutʻyun), ստրկություն (hy) (strkutʻyun)
• Asturian: esclavitú f
• Azerbaijani: quldarlıq
• Belarusian: ра́бства n (rábstva)
• Bengali: দাসত্ব (daśotto)
• Bulgarian: ро́бство (bg) n (róbstvo)
• Catalan: esclavitud f, esclavatge (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 奴隸制度／奴隶制度 (núlì zhìdù), 奴隶制度 (núlì zhìdù)

• Czech: otrokářství n
• Danish: slaveri (da) n
• Dinka: ɣɔɔc de kɔc
• Dutch: slavernij (nl) f
• Esperanto: sklaveco
• Estonian: orjus
• Finnish: orjuus (fi)
• French: esclavage (fr) m
• Galician: escravitude (gl) f
• Georgian: მონათმფლობელობა (monatmplobeloba)
• German: Sklaverei (de) f
• Greek: δουλεία (el) f (douleía)

  Ancient: δουλεία f (douleía)

• Haitian Creole: esklavaj
• Hebrew: עַבדוּת f ('avdút)
• Hindi: दासप्रथा (hi) f (dāsaprathā), बंदगी (hi) f (bandgī), ग़ुलामी f (ġulāmī)
• Hungarian: rabszolgaság (hu)
• Icelandic: þrælahald ?
• Italian: schiavitù (it) ?
• Japanese: 奴隷制度 (どれいせいど, dorei seido)
• Kazakh: құлдық (kk) (qūldyq)
• Korean: 노예 제도 (noye jedo)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji:

• Kyrgyz: кулчулук (ky) (kulculuk)
• Lao: ລະບອບຂ້າທາດ (lo) (la bǭp khā thāt)
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• Latin: servitūdō f
• Latvian: verdzība f
• Lithuanian: vergovė f
• Macedonian: ропство n (ropstvo)
• Malay: perhambaan
• Mongolian: боолчлол (mn) (boolčlol)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: slaveri (no) n

• Pashto: بردګي f (bardagí), بندګي f (bandagí), غلامي f (ǧolāmí)
• Persian: برده‌داری (barde-dâri), غلام‌داری (ğolâmdâri), بردگی (fa) (bardegi), غلامی (fa) (ğolâmi)
• Polish: niewolnictwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: escravidão (pt) f
• Romanian: sclavie (ro) f, robie (ro) f
• Russian: ра́бство (ru) n (rábstvo), нево́ля (ru) f (nevólja)
• Scottish Gaelic: tràillealachd f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ро̀пство n

  Roman: ròpstvo (sh) n

• Slovak: otrokárstvo n
• Slovene: suženjstvo (sl) n
• Spanish: esclavitud (es) f
• Swahili: utumwa (sw) class 11
• Swedish: slaveri (sv) n
• Tagalog: pagkaalipin
• Tajik: ғуломдорӣ (ġulomdorī), ғуломӣ (ġulomī)
• Tamil: அடிமை முறை (aṭimai muṟai)
• Tatar: коллык (qollıq)
• Telugu: దాస్యము (te) (dāsyamu), దాసితనము (te) (dāsitanamu)
• Tibetan: བཀོལ་སྤྱོད (bkol spyod), བཀོལ་གཅོད (bkol gcod)
• Turkish: kölelik (tr)
• Ukrainian: ра́бство n (rábstvo)
• Urdu: غلامی f (ġulāmī)
• Uyghur: قۇللۇق (qulluq)
• Uzbek: qullik (uz), quldorlik (uz)
• Vietnamese: chế độ nô lệ
• Volapük: slaf (vo)
• Yiddish: שקלאַפֿערײַ n (shklaferay)

condition of servitude endured by a slave

• Armenian: ստրկություն (hy) (strkutʻyun)
• Belarusian: ра́бства n (rábstva)
• Bengali: দাসত্ব (daśotto)
• Bulgarian: ро́бство (bg) n (róbstvo)
• Catalan: esclavatge (ca) m
• Czech: otroctví (cs) n
• Danish: slaveri (da) n
• Dutch: slavernij (nl) f
• Esperanto: sklaveco
• Estonian: orjus
• Finnish: orjuus (fi)
• French: esclavage (fr) m
• Georgian: მონობა (monoba)
• German: Sklaverei (de) f
• Greek: δουλεία (el) f (douleía)

  Ancient: ἀνδραποδωδία f (andrapodōdía)

• Haitian Creole: esklavaj
• Icelandic: þrælahald ?
• Irish: sclábhaíocht f
• Kannada: ಗುಲಾಮಗಿರಿ (kn) (gulāmagiri)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

• Latin: servitium n, servitus f
• Latvian: verdzība f
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• Malayalam: അടിമത്തം (ml) (aṭimattaṁ)
• Maori: ponongatanga
• Old English: þeowdom ?
• Polish: niewola (pl) f
• Portuguese: escravidão (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਗ਼ੁਲਾਮੀ (ġulāmī), ਦਾਸਤਾ (dāstā)
• Romanian: sclavie (ro) ?
• Russian: ра́бство (ru) n (rábstvo)
• Scottish Gaelic: tràillealachd f, òglachas m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ро̀пство n

  Roman: ròpstvo (sh) n

• Sindhi: غلامي
• Sinhalese: වහල්භාවය (wahalbhāwaya)
• Slovak: otrokárstvo n
• Slovene: suženjstvo (sl) n
• Spanish: esclavitud (es) f
• Swahili: utumwa (sw) class 11
• Swedish: slaveri (sv) n
• Tagalog: pagkaalipin
• Tamil: அடிமை முறை (aṭimai muṟai)
• Telugu: బానిసత్వము (te) (bānisatvamu)
• Thai: ความเป็นทาส (kwaam-bpen-tâat)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Tocharian B: mañiññe ?
• Ukrainian: ра́бство n (rábstvo)
• Volapük: slaf (vo)

condition in which one is captivated or subjugated

• Armenian: ստրկություն (hy) (strkutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: əsarət
• Bengali: দাসত্ব (daśotto)
• Catalan: esclavitud f
• Czech: otroctví (cs) n
• Danish: slaveri (da) n
• Estonian: orjus
• Finnish: orjuus (fi)
• French: esclavage (fr) m
• Georgian: მონობა (monoba)
• German: Sklaverei (de) f
• Greek: δουλεία (el) f (douleía)
• Latvian: verdzība f
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• Polish: niewola (pl) f
• Portuguese: escravidão (pt) f
• Romanian: sclavie (ro) ?
• Russian: ра́бство (ru) n (rábstvo), нево́ля (ru) f (nevólja)
• Scottish Gaelic: tràillealachd f
• Slovene: suženjstvo (sl) n
• Spanish: esclavitud (es) f
• Swedish: slaveri (sv) n
• Tagalog: pagkaalipin
• Telugu: బానిసత్వం (te) (bānisatvaṁ)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Volapük: slaf (vo)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} slavernij (nl) f
• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} sklaveco
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• Italian: ^{(please verify)} schiavitù (it) f
• Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} slaveri (no) ?

See also

• debt bondage
• bonded labor
• bonded labour

Etymology 2

slaver +‎ -y

Adjective

slavery (comparative more slavery, superlative most slavery)

1. Covered in slaver; slobbery.
   • 2014, Lisa Williamson, Echoes of Elder Times Collection:

     The giant snow bear, the wolf with slavery jaws or the claws of the silent great cats were all a part. Creatures of man's oldest nightmares were the other side of that face.

References

• slavery in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
• “slavery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “slavery”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.

Anagrams

• Laverys, Varleys