bondage
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bond·age
(bŏn'dĭj) 
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- The state of one who is bound as a slave or serf.
- A state of subjection to a force, power, or influence.
- The practice of being physically restrained, as with cords or handcuffs, as a means of attaining sexual gratification.
- Villeinage.
[Middle English, from Anglo-Norman, from Middle English bonde, serf, from Old English bōnda, husbandman, from Old Norse bōndi, present participle of būa, to live.]
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bondage
noun
- A state of subjugation to an owner or master: enslavement, helotry, serfdom, servileness, servility, servitude, slavery, thrall, thralldom, villeinage, yoke. See over/under.
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IN BRIEF: The state of being a slave or serf, or of being bound in general.
The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
— Eric Hoffer (1902-1983); American writer and philosopher
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- Social Structure and Conditions - bondage: servitude or subjugation
- Perversions, Fetishes, and Titillations - bondage: sex involving forcible restraint or tying up of partner
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Bondage
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Bondage may refer to:
- Debt bondage, a modern form of slavery in which people are bound by debt, rather than legal ownership
- Bondage (sexual), the practice of tying people up for pleasure
- Self-bondage, the practice of tying oneself up for pleasure
- Physical restraint in a more general sense
- The term bondage is also used figuratively to mean spiritual attachment, such as to the physical world, or an evil compelling force, such as original sin
- Serfdom
- Bondage (play), a 1991 play by David Henry Hwang
- The Bondage, a 2006 film by Eric Allen Bell
- Bondage (album) a 2009 album by j-pop singer Nana Kitade
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Bondage
Dansk (Danish)
n. - trældom, slaveri, bondage
Nederlands (Dutch)
slavernij, afhankelijkheid, onderdrukking
Français (French)
n. - dépendance, esclavage, servage, (fig) asservissement
Deutsch (German)
n. - Dienstbarkeit, Zwang, Sklaverei, Gefangenschaft
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - δουλεία, σκλαβιά, δεσμά, (καθομ.) σαδομαζοχιστικές ερωτικές πρακτικές
Italiano (Italian)
servitù, schiavitù
Português (Portuguese)
n. - escravidão (f), servidão (f)
Español (Spanish)
n. - servidumbre, esclavitud
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - träldom, slaveri
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
奴役, 束缚
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 奴役, 束縛
日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 農奴の境遇, とらわれの身, 屈従
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) عبوديه
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - שעבוד, עבדות
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