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bond·age
 bondage
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- pronunciation:
- ban
d
 j
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun), Word Parts
| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
a state of servitude or slavery to another.
Born into bondage, the slaves had never known freedom.She viewed her abusive marriage as a form of bondage.- synonyms:
- chains, servitude, slavery, thralldom
- antonyms:
- liberty
- similar words:
- captivity, fetters, serfdom
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| definition 2: |
the state of being held in control by external forces.
the bondage of tradition- synonyms:
- captivity, prison, slavery, subjugation
- similar words:
- chains, confinement, control, durance, duress, fetters, servitude, shackles
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| related words: |
dependence, yoke |
adjective + (n.)bondage
free, human, interested, light, servile, sexual, virtual
verb + (n.)bondage
deliver, escape, free, hold, liberate, release, sell
(n.)bondage
+ verb
sin
noun + (n.)bondage
black, chain, consciousness, debt, deliverance, form, freedom, leather, liberation, release, sadomasochism, slave, soul, toy
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The word bondage
contains the following part:
-age
Latin
noun-forming suffix
that means act, process, or result of (the action indicated by the verb base)
  More about this word part:
The suffix -age
attaches primarily to bases that are English verbs to form nouns. Base-final y becomes i and base-final silent e is dropped before -age
(carry + -age
> carriage
, store + -age
> storage
) Some nouns ending in -age
are loan words from French (voyage
, courage
) whose bases are Latin roots.
Example words:
advantage, assemblage, bondage, breakage, carriage, cleavage, courage, coverage, drainage, hostage, marriage, package, passage, postage, reportage, shortage, storage, umbrage, voyage
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