Dictionary

slaveowner en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From slave + owner.

Meanings

1. Someone who has control or ownership over another human being; the owner of a slave.
   • It was natural for the Roman slaveowners to employ these captives in activities that would benefit from their knowledge and skills. These activities were harder to monitor than simple physical labor, and carrots worked better than sticks. 2017 September 5, Peter Temin, The Roman Market Economy, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 131:
   • From the frequency with which slaveowners and enslaved Africans mention and discuss sickness, injury and disease, we know that concern for medical conditions was a signal feature of the slaveocracy. Slaveowners worried about the expense[…] 2019 July 30, Katherine Bankole, Slavery and Medicine: Enslavement and Medical Practices in Antebellum Louisiana, Routledge, →ISBN:
   • Near-synonyms: slaver, slavedriver
   • Across the street from the church, which is lovingly known as Mother Emanuel, is Marion Park. Until recently, this where a statue of Vice President John C. Calhoun, a slaveowner and staunch supporter of antebellum plantation slavery, stood. 2020 August 31, Dartinia Hull, “‘Not everything is pretty here’: Charleston tourism reckons with slavery and racism”, in CNN, archived from the original on 25 May 2022:
   • A modern glass edifice nearby houses the headquarters of the illustrious Rothschild banking family. It was the Rothschilds who in the 1830s arranged that recently paid-off £20 million loan to the British government to reimburse slaveowners after the trade ended – said to be equivalent to some £300 billion in today’s money. 2020 October 2, Maureen O'Hare, “‘Price of blood’: Financial London’s grim history revealed in new tour”, in CNN, archived from the original on 17 Aug 2022:

Forms

Antonyms

abolitionist · nonslaveholder

Deriveds

slaveownership

Synonyms

slaveholder · slaver · slavedriver

Translations (31)

uk рабовла́сник (anyone that has control over another human being) · mk робовладетел (anyone that has control over another human being) · is þrælahaldari (anyone that has control over another human being) · nci tlācahuah (anyone that has control over another human being) · de Sklavenhalterin (anyone that has control over another human being) · rsk рабовласнїца (anyone that has control over another human being) · ru рабовладе́лец (anyone that has control over another human being) · lv vergturis (anyone that has control over another human being) · ka მონათმფლობელი (anyone that has control over another human being) · uk рабовла́сниця (anyone that has control over another human being) · be рабаўлада́льнік (anyone that has control over another human being) · be рабаўлада́льніца (anyone that has control over another human being) · bg робовладелец (anyone that has control over another human being) · nci cihuātēuctli (anyone that has control over another human being) · pl właściciel niewolników (anyone that has control over another human being) · de Sklavenhalter (anyone that has control over another human being) · de Sklavenbesitzer (anyone that has control over another human being) · be рабаўла́снік (anyone that has control over another human being) · crh qul saibi (anyone that has control over another human being) · nl slaveneigenaar (anyone that has control over another human being) · fi orjanomistaja (anyone that has control over another human being) · fr esclavagiste (anyone that has control over another human being) · grc δεσπότης (anyone that has control over another human being) · cmn 奴隸主 /奴隶主 (anyone that has control over another human being) · rsk рабовласнїк (anyone that has control over another human being) · ja 奴隷所有者 (anyone that has control over another human being) · pl właścicielka niewolników (anyone that has control over another human being) · hy ստրկատեր (anyone that has control over another human being) · de Sklavenbesitzerin (anyone that has control over another human being) · be рабаўла́сніца (anyone that has control over another human being) · sv slavägare (anyone that has control over another human being)