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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of bondage

Biddy’s story doesn’t end in a Los Angeles prison cell or on the road back to bondage in Texas. — Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2026

Those being deported today weren’t captured and sold into bondage; many left home to escape civil war, gang violence or starvation. — Karen Masterson, The Conversation, 5 Oct. 2026

The National Park Service is revising interpretations at its sites to offer an upbeat rendering of human bondage, if slavery is mentioned at all. — Drew Gilpin Faust, The New York Review of Books, 19 Sep. 2026

Even physical bondage could not cancel out God’s promises of freedom that had come generations earlier. — The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 18 Sep. 2026