THRALLDOM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thralldom mean? 

• THRALLDOM (noun)
  The noun THRALLDOM has 1 sense:

1. the state of being under the control of another person

  Familiarity information: THRALLDOM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THRALLDOM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The state of being under the control of another person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

bondage; slavery; thraldom; thrall; thralldom

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

subjection; subjugation (forced submission to control by others)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "thralldom"):

bonded labor (a practice in which employers give high-interest loans to workers whose entire families then labor at low wages to pay off the debt; the practice is illegal in the United States)

servitude (state of subjection to an owner or master or forced labor imposed as punishment)

serfdom; serfhood; vassalage (the state of a serf)

Derivation:

thrall (the state of being under the control of another person)