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Adjective slave has 1 sense

slave - held in servitude; "he was born of slave parents"
Antonyms: free, emancipated, freed, liberated, freeborn, free-soil, slaveless

Noun slave has 3 senses

slave - a person who is owned by someone
--₁ is a kind of person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul
--₁ has particulars:
bondman, bondsman; bondwoman, bondswoman, bondmaid; bond servant; creature, tool, puppet; galley slave; Scott, Dred Scott; Turner, Nat Turner; Vesey, Denmark Vesey
slave, striver, hard worker - someone who works as hard as a slave
--₂ is a kind of worker

Derived form: verb slave₁
slave - someone entirely dominated by some influence or person; "a slave to fashion"; "a slave to cocaine"; "his mother was his abject slave"
--₃ is a kind of person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul

Verb slave has 1 sense

slave, break one's back, buckle down, knuckle down - work very hard, like a slave
--₁ is one way to work, do work

Derived forms: noun slave₂, noun slavery₃
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s