word-vault/dist/data/cards/sl/slave.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "slave",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a person who is owned by another person and is forced to work for and obey them",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "A **former slave**, he graduated from Claflin University in South Carolina."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She treated her daughter like a slave."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the slave trader Edward Colston"
                },
                {
                    "text": "freed slaves"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Prisoners of war were regularly sold as slaves."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["escaped", "fugitive", "runaway"],
                "verb + slave": ["become", "have", "keep"],
                "slave + noun": ["labour/​labor", "labourer/​laborer", "master"],
                "preposition": ["slave of", "slave to"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a person who is so strongly influenced by something that they cannot live without it, or cannot make their own decisions",
            "sensetop": "slave of somethingslave to something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "We are slaves of the motor car.",
                    "contextForm": "slave of something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Sue's a slave to fashion.",
                    "contextForm": "slave to something"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["escaped", "fugitive", "runaway"],
                "verb + slave": ["become", "have", "keep"],
                "slave + noun": ["labour/​labor", "labourer/​laborer", "master"],
                "preposition": ["slave of", "slave to"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a device that is directly controlled by another one",
            "labels": "(specialist)",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/sleɪv/",
                "audio": "sl/slave/slave__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/sleɪv/",
                "audio": "sl/slave/slave__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: shortening of Old French esclave, equivalent of medieval Latin sclava (feminine) ‘Slavonic (captive)’: the Slavonic peoples had been reduced to a servile state by conquest in the 9th cent."
}