slaveries
- 1Plural of slavery.
Historians distinguish the various slaveries practiced across different civilizations.
The chattel and debt slaveries of the region took quite distinct legal forms.
Note
A plural for a word that usually refuses one. Slavery is normally a mass noun, so the plural marks a deliberate choice to count. It treats the institution as several distinct systems or kinds, set side by side for comparison, rather than one phenomenon. The spelling belongs only to the noun: the adjective slavery, meaning "covered in slaver; slobbery," has no plural at all.
slaveries is a form of slavery
slavery, noun: A system or social practice in which people are owned as property, especially for use as forced laborers. Full entry
- Forms
- slaveryslaveries plural
- Spelling
- slavery → slaveries: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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