Bondage is the condition of being someone's property and having to work for them.
Masters sometimes allowed their slaves to buy their way out of bondage.
2. uncountable noun
Bondage is the condition of not being free because you are strongly influenced by something or someone.
[formal]
All people, she said, lived their lives in bondage to hunger, pain and lust. [+ to]
3. uncountable noun
Bondage is the practice of being tied up or tying your partner up in order to gain sexual pleasure.
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bondage in British English
(ˈbɒndɪdʒ)
noun
1.
slavery or serfdom; servitude
2. Also called: villeinage
(in medieval Europe) the condition and status of unfree peasants who provided labour and other services for their lord in return for holdings of land
3.
a sexual practice in which one partner is physically bound
bondage in American English
(ˈbɑndɪdʒ)
noun
1.
serfdom or slavery
2.
subjection to some force, compulsion, or influence; specif., physical restraint as a sadomasochistic technique
3.
villeinage
SIMILAR WORDS: ˈserviˌtude
Word origin
ME < Anglo-L bondagium < OE bonda < ON bonde, orig. prp. of bua, to prepare, inhabit, akin to Ger bauen, to build < IE base *bheu-, to grow, develop > be, Sans bhū-, earth, Gr phyein, to grow
Synonyms of 'bondage'
slavery, imprisonment, captivity, confinement
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In other languages
bondage
British English: bondage NOUN
Bondage is the condition of being someone's property and having to work for them.
Masters sometimes allowed their slaves to buy their way out of bondage.
American English: bondage
Brazilian Portuguese: escravidão
Chinese: 奴役
European Spanish: esclavitud
French: esclavage
German: Sklaverei
Italian: schiavitù
Japanese: 奴隷の身
Korean: 노예의 신분
European Portuguese: escravidão
Latin American Spanish: esclavitud
(noun)
Definition
slavery
A terrible life of bondage was compounded by a guilty secret.
Synonyms
slavery
My people have survived 300 years of slavery.
imprisonment
She was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment.
captivity
He was released today after more than two months of captivity.
confinement
yoke
People are suffering under the yoke of capitalism.
duress
servitude
a life of servitude
enslavement
Free people will never choose their own enslavement.
subjugation
serfdom
subjection
the complete subjection of the prisoners to their captors
vassalage
thraldom
enthralment
Additional synonyms
in the sense of captivity
Definition
the state of being kept in confinement
He was released today after more than two months of captivity.
Synonyms
confinement,
custody,
detention,
imprisonment,
incarceration,
internment,
durance (archaic),
restraint
in the sense of duress
Synonyms
imprisonment,
restraint,
constraint,
hardship,
captivity,
confinement,
incarceration
in the sense of enslavement
Free people will never choose their own enslavement.