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- [bon-dij]
- /ˈbɒn dɪdʒ/
- /ˈbɒn.dɪdʒ/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [bon-dij]
- /ˈbɒn dɪdʒ/
Definitions of bondage word
- uncountable noun bondage Bondage is the condition of being someone's property and having to work for them. 3
- uncountable noun bondage Bondage is the condition of not being free because you are strongly influenced by something or someone. 3
- uncountable noun bondage Bondage is the practice of being tied up or tying your partner up in order to gain sexual pleasure. 3
- noun bondage slavery or serfdom; servitude 3
- noun bondage (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
- noun bondage a sexual practice in which one partner is physically bound 3
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Origin of bondage
First appearance:
before 1250 One of the 11% oldest English words
First recorded in 1250-1300; Middle English word from Anglo-Latin word bondagium. See bond2, -age
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Parts of speech for Bondage
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bondage popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 89% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
bondage usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for bondage
noun bondage
- yoke — a device for joining together a pair of draft animals, especially oxen, usually consisting of a crosspiece with two bow-shaped pieces, each enclosing the head of an animal. Compare harness (def 1).
- servitude — slavery or bondage of any kind: political or intellectual servitude.
- serfdom — a person in a condition of servitude, required to render services to a lord, commonly attached to the lord's land and transferred with it from one owner to another.
- thralldom — the state of being a thrall; bondage; slavery; servitude.
- servility — slavishly submissive or obsequious; fawning: servile flatterers.
Antonyms for bondage
noun bondage
- independence — a city in W Missouri: starting point of the Santa Fe and Oregon trails.
- freedom — the state of being free or at liberty rather than in confinement or under physical restraint: He won his freedom after a retrial.
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