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bond service |
bond trading |
bond-servant |
bond-trading activity |
bondable |
bondage
| bondager
| bondar
| bonded
| bonded labor
| bonder
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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun bondage has 3 senses
- bondage(n = noun.state) Array - the state of being under the control of a force or influence or abstract power; "he was in bondage to fear"; "he sought release from his bondage to Satan"; "a self freed from the bondage of time" is a kind of subjection, subjugation
- bondage(n = noun.state) slavery, thraldom, thrall, thralldom - the state of being under the control of another person; Array is a kind of subjection, subjugation
- bondage(n = noun.act) Array - sexual practice that involves physically restraining (by cords or handcuffs) one of the partners; Array is a kind of sex, sex activity, sexual activity, sexual practice
has particulars: bonded labor, servitude, serfdom, serfhood, vassalage
CIDE DICTIONARY
- The state of being bound; condition of being under restraint; restraint of personal liberty by compulsion; involuntary servitude; slavery; captivity. [1913 Webster]"The King, when he designed you for my guard,
Resolved he would not make my bondage hard." [1913 Webster] - Obligation; tie of duty. [1913 Webster]"He must resolve by no means to be . . . brought under the bondage of observing oaths." [1913 Webster]
- Villenage; tenure of land on condition of doing the meanest services for the owner. [1913 Webster]
Syn. -- Thralldom; bond service; imprisonment.
OXFORD DICTIONARY
bondage, n.
1 serfdom; slavery.
2 subjection to constraint, influence, obligation, etc.
3 sado-masochistic practices, including the use of physical restraints or mental enslavement.
1 serfdom; slavery.
2 subjection to constraint, influence, obligation, etc.
3 sado-masochistic practices, including the use of physical restraints or mental enslavement.
Etymology
ME f. AL bondagium: infl. by BOND
THESAURUS
bondage
absolutism, bond service, captivity, control, debt slavery, deprivation of freedom, disenfranchisement, disfranchisement, domination, enslavement, enthrallment, feudalism, feudality, helotism, helotry, indentureship, peonage, restraint, serfdom, serfhood, servility, servitude, slavery, subjection, subjugation, thrall, thralldom, tyranny, vassalage, villenage, yokeROGET THESAURUS
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Subjection
N subjection, dependence, dependency, subordination, thrall, thralldom, thraldom, enthrallment, subjugation, bondage, serfdom, feudalism, feudality, vassalage, villenage, slavery, enslavement, involuntary servitude, conquest, service, servitude, servitorship, tendence, employ, tutelage, clientship, liability, constraint, oppression, yoke, submission, obedience, subject, dependent, subordinate, feudal, feudatory, in subjection to, under control, in leading strings, in harness, subjected, enslaved, constrained, downtrodden, overborne, overwhelmed, under the lash, on the hip, led by the nose, henpecked, the puppet of, the sport of, the plaything of, under one's orders, under one's command, under one's thumb, a slave to, at the mercy of, in the power of, in the hands of, in the clutches of, at the feet of, at one's beck and call, liable, parasitical, stipendiary, under, slaves - in a land of light and law.
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