Slave vs. Serf

Slavenoun

A person who is the property of another person and whose labor (and sometimes also whose life) is subject to the owner's volition.

Slavenoun

A person who is legally obliged by prior contract (oral or written) to work for another, with contractually limited rights to bargain; an indentured servant.

Slavenoun

A drudge; one who labours like a slave.

Slavenoun

One who has lost the power of resistance; one who surrenders to something.

Slavenoun

An abject person; a wretch.

Slavenoun

A submissive partner in a BDSM relationship who (consensually) submits to (sexually and/or personally) serving one or more masters or mistresses.

Slavenoun

A person who is forced against their will to perform, for another person or group, sexual acts or services on a regular or continuing basis.

Slavenoun

(engineering) A device that is controlled by another device.

Slaveverb

(intransitive) To work hard.

Slaveverb

(transitive) To enslave.

Slaveverb

(transitive) To place a device under the control of another.

Slavenoun

See Slav.

Slavenoun

A person who is held in bondage to another; one who is wholly subject to the will of another; one who is held as a chattel; one who has no freedom of action, but whose person and services are wholly under the control of another.

Slavenoun

One who has lost the power of resistance; one who surrenders himself to any power whatever; as, a slave to passion, to lust, to strong drink, to ambition.

Slavenoun

A drudge; one who labors like a slave.

Slavenoun

An abject person; a wretch.

Slaveverb

To drudge; to toil; to labor as a slave.

Slaveverb

To enslave.

Slavenoun

a person who is owned by someone

Slavenoun

someone who works as hard as a slave

Slavenoun

someone entirely dominated by some influence or person;

Slaveverb

work very hard, like a slave

Slaveadjective

held in servitude;

Serfnoun

A partially free peasant of a low hereditary class, slavishly attached to the land owned by a feudal lord and required to perform labour, enjoying minimal legal or customary rights.

Serfnoun

A similar agricultural labourer in 18th and 19th century Europe.

Serfnoun

(strategy games) A worker unit.

Serfnoun

A servant or slave employed in husbandry, and in some countries attached to the soil and transferred with it, as formerly in Russia.

Serfnoun

(Middle Ages) a person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord