slaveboy
slaveboy noun: a boy who is a slave.
Noun
slaveboy (plural slaveboys)
- A boy who is a slave.
- An instance of this argumentative strategy occurs in Plato’s Meno, in an episode involving a slaveboy. Socrates asks a slaveboy to answer a series of questions about the relative proportions of sides of a square.1998, Paul K. Moser, Dwayne H. Mulder, J.D. Trout, The Theory of Knowledge: A Thematic Introduction, New York, NY: Oxford University Press, page 104
- […] passage in which a slaveboy — who has never had any geometry lessons — is led by a series of questions to invent for himself a theorem related to that of Pythagoras […]2004, Denis Charles Phillips, Jonas F. Soltis, Perspectives on Learning (page 11)
- A young male slave (submissive partner) in a BDSM relationship.
Forms of slaveboy
| plural | slaveboys |
|---|---|
| alternative form | slave-boy |
| alternative form | slave boy |
Origin of slaveboy
Compound of slave + boy.
Questions about slaveboy
- What does slaveboy mean?
- Slaveboy means a boy who is a slave.
- What part of speech is slaveboy?
- Slaveboy is a noun.
- What is the plural of slaveboy?
- The plural of slaveboy is slaveboys.
Words near slaveboy in the dictionary
Source and license
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