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slaver

noun · verb

Simple meaning

A person who buys, sells, transports, or owns slaves.

Pronunciation

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slayver

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IPA pronunciation (US)

ˈsleɪvɚ

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Word Review

Definition

Everyday modern meanings first, grouped by part of speech.

noun

  1. A person engaged in the slave trade; a person who buys, sells, transports, or owns slaves.

  2. nautical

    A ship used to transport slaves.

  3. A white slaver; a person who sells prostitutes into sexual slavery.

  4. Saliva running from the mouth; drool.

verb

  1. Let saliva drivel from the mouth

  2. intransitive

    To drool saliva from the mouth; to slobber.

  3. intransitiveof saliva

    To be drooled out of someone's mouth.

  4. transitive

    To smear with saliva issuing from the mouth.

  5. To be besmeared with saliva.

  6. intransitive

    To fawn.

Word at a Glance

Difficulty
C2 · Proficient (estimated)

Word Aura™

How this word commonly comes across.

Aura for this meaning

This meaning: A person engaged in the slave trade; a person who buys, sells, transports, or owns slaves.

Used this way, slaver is a reasonably familiar word that usually carries little praise or criticism of its own. It usually sounds natural in a wide range of settings.

Emotional tone
Neutral
Formality
Neutral
Intensity
Not strongly marked
How common
Moderately common
Connotation
Matter-of-fact
Usage feel
Neutral and straightforward

Nearby words

  • slave dealer , rarer, so it draws attention

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Word Family

Related forms, grouped by how they connect.

Inflected forms

Grammatical variations of the same word.

  • slavenounBase word

    A person who is owned by someone.

Word family

Words built from the same root.

  • slavicnounDerived noun

    A branch of the Indo-European family of languages.

Compound terms

Established multiword terms.

  • white slavernounCompound term

    A person who forces women to become prostitutes.

More about this wordSynonyms, forms, origin

Synonyms

noun

Sense: person engaged in the slave trade

slave dealerRare

verb

Sense: let saliva drivel from the mouth

drivelArchaicdribbleslobberRare

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