Dictionary

thraldom en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈθɹɔːl.dəm/

Etymology

From Middle English thraldom, þraldom. Compare Danish trældom, Norwegian trelldom, Swedish träldom. By surface analysis, thral(l) + -dom.

Meanings

1. (countable, qualifier:literary or puristic; otherwise archaic; literary or puristic; otherwise archaic, uncountable) A state of bondage, slavery, or subjugation to another person.
   • Beauteous Penthea […] is novv ſo yoak'd / To a moſt barbarous thraldome, miſery, / Affliction, that [s]he ſauors not humanity. c. 1625–1632 (date written), Iohn Ford [i.e., John Ford], The Broken Heart. A Tragedy. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Hugh Beeston, […], published 1633, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, signatures B, verso – B2, recto:
   • For ye into like thraldome me did throw, And kept from complishing the faith which I did owe. 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
   • The wretched thraldom was over,—and what had it left? 1864, “A Fast-Day at Foxden”, in Atlantic Monthly Journal, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2006:

Forms

Synonyms

thrall

Translations (12)

es subyugación (state of bondage, slavery, or subjugation to another person) · de Sklaverei (state of bondage, slavery, or subjugation to another person) · no trelldom (state of bondage, slavery, or subjugation to another person) · es servidumbre (state of bondage, slavery, or subjugation to another person) · da trældom (state of bondage, slavery, or subjugation to another person) · fr esclavage (state of bondage, slavery, or subjugation to another person) · es esclavitud (state of bondage, slavery, or subjugation to another person) · non þrældómr (state of bondage, slavery, or subjugation to another person) · bg робство (state of bondage, slavery, or subjugation to another person) · enm thraldom (state of bondage, slavery, or subjugation to another person) · de Knechtschaft (state of bondage, slavery, or subjugation to another person) · sv träldom (state of bondage, slavery, or subjugation to another person)