Word Meanings - CAPTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A prisoner taken by force or stratagem, esp., by an enemy, in war; one kept in bondage or in the power of another. Then, when I am thy captive, talk of chains. Milton. 2. One charmed or subdued by beaty, excellence, or affection; one who is

Additional info about word: CAPTIVE

1. A prisoner taken by force or stratagem, esp., by an enemy, in war; one kept in bondage or in the power of another. Then, when I am thy captive, talk of chains. Milton. 2. One charmed or subdued by beaty, excellence, or affection; one who is captivated.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CAPTIVE)

• Bondsman
• Slave
• serf
• prisoner
• captive
• vassal

Related words: (words related to CAPTIVE)

• BONDSMAN
  A surety; one who is bound, or who gives security, for another. (more info) 1. A slave; a villain; a serf; a bondman. Carnal, greedy people, without such a precept, would have no mercy upon their poor bondsmen. Derham.
• SLAVEOCRACY
  See SLAVOCRACY
• SLAVEHOLDING
  Holding persons in slavery.
• VASSALESS
  A female vassal. Spenser.
• VASSALAGE
  1. The state of being a vassal, or feudatory. 2. Political servitude; dependence; subjection; slavery; as, the Greeks were held in vassalage by the Turks. 3. A territory held in vassalage. "The Countship of Foix, with six territorial vassalages."
• VASSAL
  The grantee of a fief, feud, or fee; one who holds land of superior, and who vows fidelity and homage to him; a feudatory; a feudal tenant. Burrill. 2. A subject; a dependent; a servant; a slave. "The vassals of his anger." Milton. Rear vassal,
• SLAVERY
  1. The condition of a slave; the state of entire subjection of one person to the will of another. Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, slavery, said I, still thou art a bitter draught! Sterne. I wish, from my soul, that the legislature of this
• SLAVEBORN
  Born in slavery.
• CAPTIVE
  1. A prisoner taken by force or stratagem, esp., by an enemy, in war; one kept in bondage or in the power of another. Then, when I am thy captive, talk of chains. Milton. 2. One charmed or subdued by beaty, excellence, or affection; one who is
• SLAVERER
  A driveler; an idiot.
• VASSALRY
  The body of vassals.
• SLAVEHOLDER
  One who holds slaves.
• SLAVERING
  Drooling; defiling with saliva. -- Slav"er*ing*ly, adv.
• SLAVER
  1. A vessel engaged in the slave trade; a slave ship. 2. A person engaged in the purchase and sale of slaves; a slave merchant, or slave trader. The slaver's hand was on the latch, He seemed in haste to go. Longfellow.
• PRISONER
  1. One who is confined in a prison. Piers Plowman. 2. A person under arrest, or in custody, whether in prison or not; a person held in involuntary restraint; a captive; as, a prisoner at the bar of a court. Bouvier. Prisoner of Hope thou art, --
• SLAVEY
  A maidservant.
• SLAVE
  See SLAV
• ENSLAVEMENT
  The act of reducing to slavery; state of being enslaved; bondage; servitude. A fresh enslavement to their enemies. South.
• ENSLAVEDNESS
  State of being enslaved.
• REENSLAVE
  To enslave again.
• ENVASSAL
  To make a vassal of.
• WHITE SLAVE
  A woman held in involuntary confinement for purposes of prostitution; loosely, any woman forced into unwilling prostitution.
• ANTISLAVERY
  Opposed to slavery. -- n.
• DISENSLAVE
  To free from bondage or slavery; to disenthrall. He shall disenslave and redeem his soul. South.
• WHITE SLAVER
  A person engaged in procuring or holding a woman or women for unwilling prostitution.
• IMPRISONER
  One who imprisons.
• PROSLAVERY
  Favoring slavery. -- n.