English Online Dictionary. What means bondage? What does bondage mean?
English
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English bondage (“serfdom”), from British Medieval Latin bondagium (“an inferior tenure held by a bond or husbandman”), from Middle English bond (“tenant farmer, serf”), from Old English bonda (“householder, husband, head of a family”), of Old Norse origin. Sense development influenced by the unrelated terms bond and bind.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbɒn.dɪd͡ʒ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbɑn.dɪd͡ʒ/
- Hyphenation: bond‧age
Noun
bondage (countable and uncountable, plural bondages)
- The state of being enslaved or the practice of slavery.
- Antonym: freedom
- (by extension) The state of lacking freedom; constraint.
- Antonym: freedom
- (sex) The practice of physically restraining people for sexual pleasure, such as by tying up or shackling.
- (attributive) Applied to clothing with many buckles, zips, etc., associated with punk and goth subcultures.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- BDSM
- S&M
Further reading
- “bondage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “bondage”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “subjection” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- dogbane, endobag, gone bad
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English bondage.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌbɔnˈdaː.ʒə/
- Hyphenation: bon‧da‧ge
- Rhymes: -aːʒə
Noun
bondage f (uncountable)
- bondage (BDSM sexual practice involving physical restraining)
Spanish
Noun
bondage m (plural bondages)
- bondage (sexual practice)
Swedish
Noun
bondage
- bondage (sexual practice)
See also
- BDSM
References
- bondage in Svensk ordbok (SO)