Bondage
Bondage noun - The state of being a slave.
Usage example: the Civil War ended over 200 years of bondage for black Africans in America
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- yoke and bondage
- yoke and serfdom
- restraint and bondage
- restraint and serfdom
- subjection and bondage
- subjection and serfdom
- subjugation and bondage
- subjugation and serfdom
- imprisonment and bondage
- imprisonment and serfdom
- captivity and bondage
- captivity and serfdom
- slavery and bondage
- slavery and serfdom
Both words in one sentence
- Note that in technical terms, the word "slavery" applies only to systems in which people may be bought and sold as property, not to other systems of forced servitude such as debt bondage, Indentured Servitude, serfdom, etc.
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Serfdom and Bondage. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 31, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/bondage/serfdom
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