BONDWOMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bondwoman mean? 

• BONDWOMAN (noun)
  The noun BONDWOMAN has 2 senses:

1. a female bound to serve without wages

2. a female slave

  Familiarity information: BONDWOMAN used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BONDWOMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A female bound to serve without wages

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

bondmaid; bondswoman; bondwoman

Hypernyms ("bondwoman" is a kind of...):

bond servant (someone bound to labor without wages)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A female slave

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

bondmaid; bondswoman; bondwoman

Hypernyms ("bondwoman" is a kind of...):

slave (a person who is owned by someone)

 Context examples 

This new order of things disgusted him, and he howled dismally for 'Marmar', as his angry passions subsided, and recollections of his tender bondwoman returned to the captive autocrat.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)