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slavedom

slavedom noun: a region or realm where slavery exists.

Noun

slavedom (plural slavedoms)

  1. A region or realm where slavery exists.
    • The puny and selfish potentates of earth may sue for slavedoms and win them, but emancipators and benefactors like these will live in perpetually augmented glory, […]1849, Elias Lyman Magoon, Republican Christianity
  2. The condition or state of being a slave; slavery.
    • My concern however, is to break those chains of slavedom.1976, W. Abraham Jerome, W. Abraham Jerome, National Agrarianism
    • The supposed equality of the South, he argued, was "not the equality of citizens, but of so many masterships or slavedoms. […]"2000, Susan-Mary Grant, North over South
  3. Enslavement; bondage.
    • But this is not the new meaning of the word chaos that we are driving up to. There exists an infinitely strong and fast vibration in the soul—a kind of ultra-hyper-chaos—that lets it resonate in love and in the overcoming of slavedom.2000, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien, American studies

Forms of slavedom

pluralslavedoms

Origin of slavedom

From slave + -dom.

Questions about slavedom

What does slavedom mean?
Slavedom means a region or realm where slavery exists.
What part of speech is slavedom?
Slavedom is a noun.
What is the plural of slavedom?
The plural of slavedom is slavedoms.

Words near slavedom in the dictionary

  1. slaved
  2. slaved away
  3. slavedealer
  4. slavedealers
  5. slavedealing
  6. slavedom
  7. slavedoms
  8. slavedriver
  9. slavedrivers
  10. slavefic
  11. slavegirl

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