Bondage: Definition and part of speech

Bondage

  1. a. Villenage; tenure of land on condition of doing the meanest services for the owner.
  2. a. The state of being bound; condition of being under restraint; restraint of personal liberty by compulsion; involuntary servitude; slavery; captivity.
  3. a. Obligation; tie of duty.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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