All bondservant synonyms
bond servant
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- slave β a person who is the property of and wholly subject to another; a bond servant.
- hostage β a person given or held as security for the fulfillment of certain conditions or terms, promises, etc., by another.
- prisoner β a person who is confined in prison or kept in custody, especially as the result of legal process.
- prisoner of war β a person who is captured and held by an enemy during war, especially a member of the armed forces. Abbreviation: POW.
- slave β a person who is the property of and wholly subject to another; a bond servant.
- detainee β A detainee is someone who is held prisoner by a government because of his or her political views or activities.
- worker β a person or thing that works.
- serf β 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.
- captive β A captive person or animal is being kept imprisoned or enclosed.
- victim β a person who suffers from a destructive or injurious action or agency: a victim of an automobile accident.
- menial β lowly and sometimes degrading: menial work.
- workhorse β a horse used for plowing, hauling, and other heavy labor, as distinguished from a riding horse, racehorse, etc.
- skivvy β Also called skivvy shirt. a man's cotton T-shirt.
- convict β If someone is convicted of a crime, they are found guilty of that crime in a law court.
- con β Con is the written abbreviation for constable, when it is part of a policeman's title.
- bondwoman β a female serf or slave
- internee β a person who is or has been interned, as a prisoner of war.
- bondman β a feudal serf
- chattel β Chattels are things that belong to you.
- laborer β a person engaged in work that requires bodily strength rather than skill or training: a laborer in the field.
- servant β a person employed by another, especially to perform domestic duties.
- vassal β (in the feudal system) a person granted the use of land, in return for rendering homage, fealty, and usually military service or its equivalent to a lord or other superior; feudal tenant.
- villain β a cruelly malicious person who is involved in or devoted to wickedness or crime; scoundrel.
- peon β a messenger, attendant, or orderly.
- villein β a member of a class of partially free persons under the feudal system, who were serfs with respect to their lord but had the rights and privileges of freemen with respect to others.
- help β to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist: He planned to help me with my work. Let me help you with those packages.
- toiler β hard and continuous work; exhausting labor or effort.
- thrall β a person who is in bondage; slave.
- retainer β the act of retaining in one's service.
- drudge β a person who does menial, distasteful, dull, or hard work.
- subservient β serving or acting in a subordinate capacity; subordinate.