Thrall Definition

thrôl
thralls
noun
thralls
A slave or bondman.
Webster's New World
A person under the moral or psychological domination of someone or something.
Webster's New World
The condition of being enslaved or dominated, often in a psychological way; thralldom.
Webster's New World
One who is in the power of another or under the sway of an influence.
American Heritage

A shelf; a stand for barrels, etc.

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
verb
To enslave.
Webster's New World
To make a thrall.
Wiktionary
adjective
Enslaved.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Thrall

Noun

Singular:
thrall
Plural:
thralls

Origin of Thrall

  • From Middle English thral, thralle, threl, threlle, from Old English þrÇ£l (“thrall, slave, servant"), from Old Norse þræll (“slave") whence the Icelandic þræll (“slave"), from Proto-Germanic *þrahilaz, *þragilaz, *þrigilaz (“runner, gofer, servant"), from Proto-Indo-European *trāgÊ°- (“to pull, drag, race, run"); according to ODS probably akin to Old High German drigil, servant, to the Gothic 𐌸𐍂𐌰𐌲𐌾𐌰𐌽 (þragjan) and to the Old English þrǣġan (“to run")

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English slave, slavery from Old English thrǣl slave, bondman from Old Norse thrǣll

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Thrall Sentence Examples

  • Fifteen years later, she is still totally brainwashed and in thrall of the control-freakery madman.

  • The thrall had a house of his own and was rather villein or serf than slave, having rights and a legal price by law.

  • It indicates the endeavour of man to reconstitute himself as a free being, not as the thrall of theological despotism, and the peculiar assistance he derived in this effort from Greek and Roman literature, the litterae humaniores, letters leaning rather to the side of man than of divinity.

  • Boasted of his vise president thrall or even to.

  • When we turn to the social divisions we find in Domesday and other documents classes of society in these districts bearing purely Norse names, dreng, karl, karlman, bonde, thrall, lysing, hold; in the system of taxation we have an assessment by carucates and not by hides and virgates, and the duodecimal rather than the decimal system of reckoning.

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