Slavery vs Slaver - What's the difference?
slavery | slaver |
An institution or social practice of owning human beings as property, especially for use as forced laborers.
A condition of servitude endured by a slave.
(figuratively) A condition in which one is captivated or subjugated, as by greed or drugs.
* 1818 , ,"The Revolt of Islam", canto 8, stanza 16,
To drool saliva from the mouth; to slobber.
To fawn.
To smear with saliva issuing from the mouth.
To be besmeared with saliva.
saliva running from the mouth; drool
* Alexander Pope
a person engaged in the slave trade
white slaver, who sells prostitutes into illegal 'sex slavery'
(nautical) a ship used to transport slaves
As nouns the difference between slavery and slaver
is that slavery is an institution or social practice of owning human beings as property, especially for use as forced laborers while slaver is saliva running from the mouth; drool or slaver can be a person engaged in the slave trade.As a verb slaver is
to drool saliva from the mouth; to slobber.slavery
English
(wikipedia slavery)Noun
(en-noun)- Man seeks for gold in mines that he may weave / A lasting chain for his own slavery .
See also
* debt bondage * bonded labor * bonded labourReferences
* * * * Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary , 1987-1996.slaver
English
Etymology 1
From medieval English slaveren, of Scandinavian origin, akin to or derived from (etyl) slafra "to slaver", probably imitativeVerb
(en verb)- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* (emit saliva ): drool, slobberNoun
(-)- Of all mad creatures, if the learned are right, / It is the slaver kills, and not the bite.