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Region vs Slavedom - What's the difference?

region | slavedom |

As nouns the difference between region and slavedom

is that region is any considerable and connected part of a space or surface; specifically, a tract of land or sea of considerable but indefinite extent; a country; a district; in a broad sense, a place without special reference to location or extent but viewed as an entity for geographical, social or cultural reasons while slavedom is a region or realm where slavery exists.

region

English

Noun

(wikipedia region) (en noun)
  • Any considerable and connected part of a space or surface; specifically, a tract of land or sea of considerable but indefinite extent; a country; a district; in a broad sense, a place without special reference to location or extent but viewed as an entity for geographical, social or cultural reasons.
    • the equatorial regions
    the temperate regions
    the polar regions
    the upper regions of the atmosphere
  • An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country or the European Union.
  • (historical) Such a division of the city of Rome and of the territory about Rome, of which the number varied at different times; a district, quarter, or ward.
  • (figuratively) The inhabitants of a region or district of a country.
  • (anatomy) A place in or a part of the body in any way indicated.
    • the abdominal regions
  • (obsolete) Place; rank; station; dignity.
  • (obsolete) The space from the earth's surface out to the orbit of the moon: properly called the elemental region.

    • Related terms

    * regional * regionally * regionarius * regionary * regionic * radiate * radiation

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    slavedom

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A region or realm where slavery exists.
  • *1849 , Elias Lyman Magoon, Republican Christianity :
    • The puny and selfish potentates of earth may sue for slavedoms and win them, but emancipators and benefactors like these will live in perpetually augmented glory, [...]
  • The condition or state of being a slave; slavery.
  • *1976 , W. Abraham Jerome, W. Abraham Jerome, National Agrarianism :
    • My concern however, is to break those chains of slavedom .
  • *2000 , Susan-Mary Grant, North over South :
    • The supposed equality of the South, he argued, was "not the equality of citizens, but of so many masterships or slavedoms . [...]"
  • *2004 , William Faulkner, James B. Meriwether, Essays, speeches, and public letters :
    • "[...] But we offer you equality: at least equality in slavedom ; if you are to be slaves, at least you can be slaves to your own color and race and religion.”
  • Enslavement; bondage.
  • *2000 , Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien, American studies :
    • But this is not the new meaning of the word chaos that we are driving up to. There exists an infinitely strong and fast vibration in the soul—a kind of ultra-hyper-chaos—that lets it resonate in love and in the overcoming of slavedom .