servitude
pronunciation
How to pronounce servitude in British English:
UK [ˈsɜ:vɪtju:d]
How to pronounce servitude in American English:
US [ˈsɜrvətud]
-
- Noun:
- state of subjection to an owner or master or forced labor imposed as punishment
Word Origin
- servitude (n.)
- early 15c., "condition of being enslaved," from Old French servitude, servitute (13c.) and directly from Late Latin servitudo "slavery," from Latin servus "a slave" (see serve (v.)) + abstract noun suffix.
Example
- 1. The seeded enter into a relationship that operates like indentured servitude lite .
- 2. After lo this lifetime of servitude , I intend to break free .
- 3. As infants and then youths , we demand parental servitude not for weeks or months but years .
- 4. To a lifetime of servitude in your name while you roam free ?
- 5. The ilo also estimates that at least 1.39 million of those are victims of commercial sexual servitude in their own countries our abroad .