Synonyms of bondage

bondage

noun

ˈbän-dij 

as in slavery

the state of being an enslaved person

people freed from bondage

Synonyms & Similar Words

• slavery
• thraldom
• servitude
• enslavement
• yoke
• servility
• thralldom
• thrall
• captivity
• serfdom
• peonage
• subjugation
• subjection
• dependance
• imprisonment
• dependence
• incarceration
• enchainment

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• freedom
• liberty
• liberation
• emancipation
• enfranchisement
• independence
• manumission
• sovereignty
• autonomy
• sovranty
• self-government

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of bondage

For those freed from bondage, the end of the Civil War was a time of great hope and promise as well as profound disappointment and loss. —Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Mar. 2025

This economic bondage, called sharecropping, was a system by which tenant farmers rented land from large landowners. —David Cason, The Conversation, 7 Mar. 2025

Leigh Bowery, the fashion icon and transgressive performance artist, designed several costumes (assless slacks; sparkly bondage suits) for Atlas’s video pieces and often appeared on-screen as a kind of spiritual hype man. —Beatrice Loayza, ARTnews.com, 6 Feb. 2025

Passing for White to Escape Slavery Passing for white was an intentional strategy that enslaved people used to free themselves from bondage. —JSTOR Daily, 20 Feb. 2025