Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - bondage
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1. Bondage is the condition of being someone’s property and having to work for them. Masters sometimes allowed their slaves to buy their way out of bondage. = slavery N-UNCOUNT 2. Bondage is the condition of not being free because you are strongly influenced by something or someone. (FORMAL) All people, she said, lived their lives in bondage to hunger, pain and lust. N-UNCOUNT: oft N to n 3. Bondage is the practice of being tied up or tying your partner up in order to gain sexual pleasure. N-UNCOUNT ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from bonde customary tenant, from Middle English Date: 14th century 1. the tenure or service of a villein, serf, or slave 2. a state of being bound usually by compulsion (as of law or mastery): as a. captivity, serfdom b. servitude or subjugation to a controlling person or force young people in ~ to drugs 3. sadomasochistic sexual practices involving the physical restraint of one partner ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. 1 serfdom; slavery. 2 subjection to constraint, influence, obligation, etc. 3 sado-masochistic practices, including the use of physical restraints or mental enslavement. Etymology: ME f. AL bondagium: infl. by BOND ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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- 1303, "condition of a serf or slave," from Anglo-L. bondagium, from M.E. bond "a serf, tenant farmer," from O.E. bonda "householder," from O.N. bondi, from boandi "free-born farmer," lit. prp. of boa "dwell, prepare, inhabit." Meaning in Eng. changed by infl. of bond. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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