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THRALDOM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does thraldom mean?
• THRALDOM (noun)
The noun THRALDOM has 1 sense:
1. the state of being under the control of another person
Familiarity information: THRALDOM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The state of being under the control of another person
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
bondage; slavery; thraldom; thrall; thralldom
Hypernyms ("thraldom" is a kind of...):
subjection; subjugation (forced submission to control by others)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "thraldom"):
bonded labor (a practice in which employers give high-interest loans to workers whose entire families then labor at low wages to pay off the debt; the practice is illegal in the United States)
servitude (state of subjection to an owner or master or forced labor imposed as punishment)
serfdom; serfhood; vassalage (the state of a serf)
Derivation:
thrall (the state of being under the control of another person)
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