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ex-slave en · NOUN

Etymology

From ex- + slave.

Meanings

  1. A former or emancipated slave.
    • Near-synonym: freedman
    • […] nearly half the Appalachian ex-slaves had endured fifteen years or more of enslavement, and they were old enough to form and to retain oral histories. 2003, Wilma P. Dunaway, “Introduction”, in Slavery in the American Mountain South, page 12:

Forms

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ex-slaves Number=Plur lexicographic

Synonyms

freedman

Translations (16)

grc ἐξελευθέρα (a former or emancipated slave) · is leysingi (a former or emancipated slave) · is frelsingi (a former or emancipated slave) · ru вольноотпу́щенник (a former or emancipated slave) · sw huru (a former or emancipated slave) · pl były niewolnik (a former or emancipated slave) · it affrancato (a former or emancipated slave) · fr ancien esclave (a former or emancipated slave) · it liberto (a former or emancipated slave) · la lībertus (a former or emancipated slave) · pl była niewolnica (a former or emancipated slave) · grc ἐξελεύθερος (a former or emancipated slave) · it emancipato (a former or emancipated slave) · la līberta (a former or emancipated slave) · grc ἀπελεύθερος (a former or emancipated slave) · grc ἀπελευθέρα (a former or emancipated slave)