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" One hundred years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, the Spanish government issued a decree authorizing the enslavement of the American Indian as in accord with the law of God and man."
Nelson A. Miles

Meaning of "enslavement" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF ENSLAVEMENT

ɪnˈsleɪvmənt


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ENSLAVEMENT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Enslavement is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ENSLAVEMENT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Slavery

Slavery is a system under which people are treated as property to be bought and sold, and are forced to work. Slaves can be held against their will from the time of their capture, purchase or birth, and deprived of the right to leave, to refuse to work, or to demand compensation. Historically, slavery was institutionally recognized by most societies; in more recent times, slavery has been outlawed in all countries, but it continues through the practices of debt bondage, indentured servitude, serfdom, domestic servants kept in captivity, certain adoptions in which children are forced to work as slaves, child soldiers, and forced marriage. Slavery is officially illegal in all countries, but there are still an estimated 20 million to 30 million slaves worldwide. Mauritania was the last jurisdiction to officially outlaw slavery, but about 10% to 20% of its population is estimated to live in slavery. Slavery predates written records and has existed in many cultures. Most slaves today are debt slaves, largely in South Asia, who are under debt bondage incurred by lenders, sometimes even for generations.

Definition of enslavement in the English dictionary

The definition of enslavement in the dictionary is the act of enslaving or the condition of being enslaved. Other definition of enslavement is having lost your freedom of action or choice.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ENSLAVEMENT

achievement · advertisement · agreement · apartment · assessment · bereavement · contrivement · countermovement · depravement · deprivement · enlevement · evolvement · improvement · involvement · lavement · misimprovement · movement · pavement · revivement · underachievement

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ENSLAVEMENT

ensiform · ensign · ensign-bearer · ensigncy · ensignship · ensilability · ensilage · ensile · ensky · enslave · enslaver · ensnare · ensnarement · ensnarer · ensnarl · Ensor · ensorcel · ensorcellment · ensoul · ensoulment

WORDS THAT END LIKE ENSLAVEMENT

abonnement · amusement · announcement · arrangement · basement · comment · element · enforcement · engagement · implement · infringement · management · measurement · placement · replacement · requirement · retirement · settlement · statement · supplement · unit of measurement

Synonyms and antonyms of enslavement in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ENSLAVEMENT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «enslavement» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «enslavement» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF ENSLAVEMENT

Find out the translation of enslavement to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of enslavement from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «enslavement» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

奴役
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

esclavitud
570 millions of speakers
en

English

enslavement
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

दासता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الاستعباد
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

порабощение
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

escravização
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

দাসত্ববন্ধন
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

asservissement
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Perhambaan
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Versklavung
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

奴隷化
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

노예
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Enslavement
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự nô lệ
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

அடிமைப்படுத்தும்
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

गुलामगिरी
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

köleleştirme
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

asservimento
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

zniewolenie
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

поневолення
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

sclavie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

υποδούλωση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

verslawing
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

förslavningen
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

slaveri
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of enslavement

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ENSLAVEMENT»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of enslavement
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «enslavement».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about enslavement

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10 QUOTES WITH «ENSLAVEMENT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word enslavement.
1
Isaiah Berlin
The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.
2
Louise Brooks
There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.
3
Leo Buscaglia
If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.
4
John Ensign
The act of voting by ordinary Iraqis in the face of extreme danger confirms President Bush's belief that people around the globe, when given a chance, will choose liberty and democracy over enslavement and tyranny.
5
R. D. Laing
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
6
Karl Liebknecht
To the socialist no nation is free whose national existence is based upon the enslavement of another people, for to him colonial peoples, too, are peoples, and, as such, parts of the national state.
7
Agnes Macphail
If the preservation of the home means the enslavement of women, economically or morally, then we had better break it.
8
Nelson A. Miles
One hundred years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, the Spanish government issued a decree authorizing the enslavement of the American Indian as in accord with the law of God and man.
9
Natasha Trethewey
My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history that is rooted in colonialism, the language and iconography of empire, disenfranchisement, the enslavement of peoples, and the way that people were sectioned off because of blood.
10
Alice Walker
Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ENSLAVEMENT»

Discover the use of enslavement in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to enslavement and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Sexual Enslavement of Girls and Women Worldwide
Presents an inside look at sex slavery worldwide, which U.S. State Department officials estimate affects 800,000 victims each year - primarily women and children trafficked against their will across international borders.
Andrea Parrot, Nina Cummings, 2008
2
Slavery by Another Name: The re-enslavement of black ...
By turns moving, sobering and shocking, this unprecedented account reveals these stories, the companies that profited the most from neoslavery, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today.
Douglas A. Blackmon, 2012
3
Enslavement and Emancipation
- Original essays and excerpts from published critical analyses that discuss the role of the title theme in various works - An index for easy reference - Two introductory essays by Harold Bloom.
Harold Bloom, Blake Hobby, 2010
4
Epidemics and Enslavement: Biological Catastrophe in the ...
Tracing the pathology of early European encounters with Native peoples of the Southeast, this work concludes that, while indigenous peoples suffered from an array of ailments before contact, Natives had their most significant experience ...
Paul Kelton, 2007
5
Glorious Enslavement (Mills & Boon Spice Briefs)
I am a slave, both by circumstance and proclivity. Long have I prayed for the perfect master and trusted the Goddess to guide me into his arms. At Verulamium, in the heart of Roman Britannia, I find him.
Anya Richards, 2010
6
English Common Law, African Enslavement and Human Rights
This book is an expanded version of an essay by the author published in Texas Wesleyan Law Review "English Common Law, Slavery, and Human Rights" 13 Tex.
Colin Bobb-Semple, 2012
7
Slavery and Medicine: Enslavement and Medical Practices in ...
This volume traces the modern critical and performance history of this play, one of Shakespeare's most-loved and most-performed comedies. The essay focus on such modern concerns as feminism, deconstruction, textual theory, and queer theory.
Katherine Kemi Bankole, 1998
8
African Americans on Martha's Vineyard: From Enslavement to ...
Venture through the Vineyard with local tour guide Thomas Dresser and learn about people such as Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates and President Barack Obama, who return to the Vineyard for respite from a demanding world.
Tom Dresser, 2010
9
Tell This in My Memory: Stories of Enslavement from Egypt, ...
The framework of racial identity constructed through these stories proves instrumental in explaining how countries later confronted—or not—the legacy of the slave trade.
Eve Troutt Powell, 2012
10
Becoming Free, Remaining Free: Manumission and Enslavement ...
This volume uncovers the details of these fascinating cases.
Judith Kelleher Schafer, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ENSLAVEMENT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term enslavement is used in the context of the following news items.
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The Confederate flag represents two things: treason and enslavement
As such, it represents only two things: treason and enslavement. Nothing can alter that fact, and the “heritage” that its advocates profess that it ... «Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Jul 15»
2
Minister Abena Ondoa Condemns Enslavement of Women
The Minister of Women Empowerment and the Family, Professor Marie Thérèse Abena Ondoa, has condemned the practice whereby ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
3
Teen Launches Campaign to Change the Name of Her High School
The high school, she notes, “is named after a Confederate general who not only fought to preserve the enslavement of human beings but ... «Yahoo Parenting, Jul 15»
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Published on Jul 9, 2015, 1:28 pm AST
“They call us rebels, well, let us be rebels. We're rebelling against the political enslavement of the mind!” Griffith ensured the crowd that the TFM ... «Trinidad & Tobago Express, Jul 15»
5
When Muslims Betray Non-Muslim Friends and Neighbors
... managed to flee the bloody offensive—which included the slaughter of many Yazidi men and enslavement of women and children—said:. «FrontPage Magazine, Jul 15»
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N. Korea condemns Japan's wartime sexual slavery program
North Korea has called Japan's wartime sexual enslavement of women in the early 20th century a crime against humanity that even an animal ... «Arirang News, Jul 15»
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Jenner Can. Dolezal Can't. But Why?
... very real history of racial profiling in the States in enslavement, suffrage, housing practices, police surveillance, and hundreds of other ways. «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
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House moves to ban Confederate flags at Vicksburg cemetery
... made every effort to tear apart this country and continue their traditions of enslavement and oppression of Black people," Thompson said. «WAPT Jackson, Jul 15»
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Bernie Sanders: America has 'got to apologize for slavery'
... asks the white politician how he feels about a U.S. president apologizing for the country's centuries-long enslavement of black people. “Well ... «Raw Story, Jul 15»
10
General Robert E. Lee: Tear down this flag
South Carolina and the rest of the South only seceded to preserve the violent domination and enslavement of black people, and the ... «azcentral.com, Jul 15»
REFERENCE
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