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THRALL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone held in bondage
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("thrall" is a kind of...):
bond servant (someone bound to labor without wages)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "thrall"):
helot; serf; villein ((Middle Ages) a person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The state of being under the control of another person
Synonyms:
bondage; slavery; thraldom; thrall; thralldom
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("thrall" is a kind of...):
subjection; subjugation (forced submission to control by others)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "thrall"):
bonded labor (a practice in which employers give high-interest loans to workers whose entire families then labor at low wages to pay off the debt; the practice is illegal in the United States)
servitude (state of subjection to an owner or master or forced labor imposed as punishment)
serfdom; serfhood; vassalage (the state of a serf)
Derivation:
thraldom; thralldom (the state of being under the control of another person)
