Word Meanings - BONDWOMAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A woman who is a slave, or in bondage. He who was of the bondwoman. Gal. iv. 23.
Related words: (words related to BONDWOMAN)
- WOMANLY
Becoming a woman; feminine; as, womanly behavior. Arbuthnot. A blushing, womanly discovering grace. Donne. - BONDAGE
Villenage; tenure of land on condition of doing the meanest services for the owner. Syn. -- Thralldom; bond service; imprisonment. (more info) 1. The state of being bound; condition of being under restraint; restraint of personal liberty - SLAVEOCRACY
See SLAVOCRACY - SLAVEHOLDING
Holding persons in slavery. - WOMANHEAD; WOMANHEDE
Womanhood. Chaucer. - WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION
An association of women formed in the United States in 1874, for the advancement of temperance by organizing preventive, educational, evangelistic, social, and legal work. - BONDWOMAN
A woman who is a slave, or in bondage. He who was of the bondwoman. Gal. iv. 23. - SLAVERY
1. The condition of a slave; the state of entire subjection of one person to the will of another. Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, slavery, said I, still thou art a bitter draught! Sterne. I wish, from my soul, that the legislature of this - SLAVEBORN
Born in slavery. - WOMANHOOD
1. The state of being a woman; the distinguishing character or qualities of a woman, or of womankind. Unspotted faith, and comely womanhood. Spenser. Perhaps the smile and the tender tone Came out of her pitying womanhood. Tennyson. 2. - BONDAGER
A field worker, esp. a woman who works in the field. - WOMANIZE
To make like a woman; to make effeminate. V. Knox. - SLAVERER
A driveler; an idiot. - WOMANLIKE
Like a woman; womanly. Womanlike, taking revenge too deep. Tennyson. - WOMANLESS
Without a woman or women. - WOMAN
1. To act the part of a woman in; -- with indefinite it. Daniel. 2. To make effeminate or womanish. Shak. 3. To furnish with, or unite to, a woman. "To have him see me woman'd." Shak. - SLAVEHOLDER
One who holds slaves. - WOMANKIND
The females of the human race; women, collectively. A sanctuary into which womankind, with her tools of magic, the broom and mop, has very infrequent access. Hawthorne. - SLAVERING
Drooling; defiling with saliva. -- Slav"er*ing*ly, adv. - SLAVER
1. A vessel engaged in the slave trade; a slave ship. 2. A person engaged in the purchase and sale of slaves; a slave merchant, or slave trader. The slaver's hand was on the latch, He seemed in haste to go. Longfellow. - AIRWOMAN
A woman who ascends or flies in an aircraft. - ENGLISHWOMAN
Fem. of Englishman. Shak. - UNWOMAN
To deprive of the qualities of a woman; to unsex. R. Browning. - NOBLEWOMAN
A female of noble rank; a peeress. - BONDSWOMAN
See BONDWOMAN - ENSLAVEMENT
The act of reducing to slavery; state of being enslaved; bondage; servitude. A fresh enslavement to their enemies. South. - ENSLAVEDNESS
State of being enslaved. - NEEDLEWOMAN
A woman who does needlework; a seamstress. - VAGABONDAGE
The condition of a vagabond; a state or habit of wandering about in idleness; vagrancy. - DAIRYWOMAN
A woman who attends to a dairy. - REENSLAVE
To enslave again. - GENTLEWOMAN
1. A woman of good family or of good breeding; a woman above the vulgar. Bacon. 2. A woman who attends a lady of high rank. Shak. - HERDSWOMAN
A woman who tends a herd. Sir W. Scott. - SALESWOMAN
A woman whose occupation is to sell goods or merchandise. - STATESWOMAN
A woman concerned in public affairs. A rare stateswoman; I admire her bearing. B. Jonson.