Definition of: slave

(slāv) noun
1. One whose person is held as property; a person in slavery; a bondsman; serf.
2. Law A person over whose life, liberty, and property someone has absolute control.
3. A person in mental or moral subjection to a habit, vice, or influence: a slave of tobacco.
4. One who labors like a slave; a drudge.
5. A person of slavish disposition; an abject creature.
—v. slaved, slav·ing v.i. To work like a slave; toil; drudge.
—v.t. Rare To enslave. [<F esclave <Med. L slavus, sclavus, orig. a Slav; because many Slavs were conquered and enslaved]