Plural of slave

Forms of slave

Slaves in a sentence

• One captain, to strike terror into the rest, killed a slave and dividing heart, liver and entrails into 300 pieces made each of the slaves eat one, threatening those who refused with the same torture.1963, C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins, 2nd Revised edition, page 9
• Africans provided most of the slaves to European slavers.2016, Alistair Paterson, A Millennium of Cultural Contact, Routledge, →ISBN, page 117
• Wage earners that resemble nothing so much as former southern slaves.From the entry nothing
• A few individuals who commiserated the unhappy condition of British negro slaves.From the entry commiserate
• Eventually, the intention was that they should affranchise all the slaves.From the entry affranchise

Meaning of slave

1. noun A person who is held in servitude as the property of another person, and whose labor (and often also whose body and life) is subject to the owner's volition and control.
2. noun A drudge; one who labors or is obliged (e.g. by prior contract) to labor like a slave with limited rights, e.g. an indentured servant.
3. noun An abject person.

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Questions about the plural of slave

What is the plural of slave?

The plural of slave is slaves.

Is slave countable?

Slave is a countable noun.