Synonyms for slave
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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.7 / 3 votes

1. slave

   Synonyms:
   bondman, thrall, vassal, drudge

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1. slavenoun

   a person who is owned by someone

   Synonyms:
   striver, hard worker

2. slave, striver, hard workernoun

   someone who works as hard as a slave

   Synonyms:
   striver, hard worker

3. slaveverb

   someone entirely dominated by some influence or person

   "a slave to fashion"; "a slave to cocaine"; "his mother was his abject slave"

   Synonyms:
   striver, hard worker

4. slave, break one's back, buckle down, knuckle downverb

   work very hard, like a slave

   Synonyms:
   break one's back, buckle down, knuckle down

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1. slavenoun

   Synonyms:
   bondsman, vassal, SERF, thrall, bond-servant

2. slavenoun

   Synonyms:
   drudge

3. slaveverb

   Synonyms:
   drudge, toil, moil

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1. slavenoun

   Synonyms:
   vassal, bond servant, bondslave, bondman, thrall, serf, captive, helot, drudge

   Associated words:
   abolitionism, abolitionist, blackbird, maroon

2. slaveverb

   Synonyms:
   drudge, toil, moil

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1. List of paraphrases for "slave":

   slaves, slavic, slavey, slavery, slav, slavonic, enslaved, servant, subordinate, bonded, kali, thrall

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How to use slave in a sentence?

1. Martin Luther King, Jr.:

   I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

2. Henry Fernandez:

   During slavery, there was a belief among slave owners that these families could be ripped apart and there was no need to think about how they ever might be brought back together.

3. Michael Waltz:

   Just outside the show, rape, genocide, slave labor -- American companies are drunk on Chinese dollars – entangled with Communist dictators committing atrocities.

4. John Greenleaf Whittier:

   Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

5. Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket:

   This practice is treating us like slave labor and it will only result in officers getting sick or injured by assaultive inmates, who feed on their vulnerabilities.