Definition of slave

• n. - See Slav.
• n. - 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.
• n. - 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.
• n. - A drudge; one who labors like a slave.
• n. - An abject person; a wretch.
• v. i. - To drudge; to toil; to labor as a slave.
• v. t. - To enslave.