bondage
Syllables: bond·ageUK/ˈbɒn.dɪd͡ʒ/
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Multicultural London English/ˈbɔn.dɪdʒ/
bondage noun: the state of being enslaved or the practice of slavery.
Noun
bondage (countable and uncountable, plural bondages)
- The state of being enslaved or the practice of slavery.
- debt bondage
- In Judeo-Christian tradition, the Israelites fled bondage at the hands of the Egyptians, only to wander in the wilderness for the next four decades.
- Antonyms:
- freedom
- The state of lacking freedom; constraint.
- He lived in financial bondage to his cocaine habit; no matter how much he earned, it all seemed to disappear up his nose.
- Antonyms:
- freedom
- The practice of physically restraining people for sexual pleasure, such as by tying up or shackling.
- Their marriage broke up when she discovered he had been engaging in bondage games with a local dominatrix while he was supposedly working out at the gym.
- Applied to clothing with many buckles, zips, etc., associated with punk and goth subcultures.
- bondage trousers; bondage jeans; bondage pants
bondage meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
bondage in Hindi
- state of being enslaved or the practice of slavery
- ग़ुलामी ġulāmī, बन्दगी bandagī
bondage in Tamil
- பிணைப்பு, கட்டுகள், தடைகள், கட்டுப்பாடு, அடிமைத்தனம், சிறையீடு
bondage in Marathi
- state of being enslaved or the practice of slavery
- गुलामगिरी gulāmgirī, दास्य dāsya
- state of lacking freedom; constraint
- बंधन bandhan
- practice of tying people up for sexual pleasure
- बाँडेज bŏṇḍej
bondage in Urdu
- bondage
- بندھن bandhan
More languagesFewer languages
- bondage in Bengali
- কয়েদ koẏed
- bondage in Malayalam
- അടിമത്തം, ബന്ധനം, തടവ്
- bondage in Kannada
- ಅಡಿಮೆ, ತುಳಿಲು
- bondage in Gujarati
- બંધન
- bondage in Nepali
- बंधन, बन्धकता
Examples of bondage in a sentence
- The guy I’ve been dating offered to do bondage with me, and I was like “Yes please, daddy.”
- Who was locked in mental bondage, stripped of his own language and identity.
- This, obviously, has nothing to do with bondage, so now it seems completely unclear why Tim would be associated with it.
Antonyms of bondage
Forms of bondage
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Origin of bondage
Inherited from Middle English bondage (“serfdom”), from British Medieval Latin bondagium (“an inferior tenure held by a bond or husbandman”), from Middle English bond (“tenant farmer, serf”), from Old English bonda (“householder, husband, head of a family”), of Old Norse origin. Sense development influenced by the unrelated terms bond and bind.
Words formed from bondage
Phrases with bondage
Questions about bondage
- What does bondage mean?
- Bondage means the state of being enslaved or the practice of slavery.
- What is bondage in Hindi?
- Bondage in Hindi is ग़ुलामी (ġulāmī), बन्दगी (bandagī). See Bondage meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is bondage?
- Bondage is a noun.
- How do you pronounce bondage?
- Bondage is pronounced /ˈbɒn.dɪd͡ʒ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of bondage?
- The plural of bondage is bondages.
Words near bondage in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: bondage (page history and authors); bondage (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); بندھن (Urdu) (page history and authors); কয়েদ (Bengali) (page history and authors); bondage (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bondage (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bondage (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bondage (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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