CHATTEL Synonyms: 55 Similar and Opposite Words

chattel

noun

ˈcha-tᵊl

Definition of chattel

as in slave

a person who is considered the property of another person an amendment to end the keeping of humans as chattel

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as in possession

chattels plural transportable items that one owns packed up all her chattels and moved to a new state

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Recent Examples of chattel These are human beings, not chattel. — Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2026 Before meeting Rael-Gálvez, Daria Celeste Landress had learned while researching her family history that three Indigenous ancestors had been listed in historical documents as chattel, alongside furniture, houses, and trees. — Geraldo Cadava, New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2026 Patriarchal cultures reduce women to economic dependence, treating them as a form of chattel to be traded among families. — Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025 There was no forgetting the notorious Confederate prison camps like Andersonville and Salisbury, the Confederate pogrom at Fort Pillow, and the fact that the South had seceded in the first place to perpetuate and expand an elite-serving economy based on human chattel. — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 5 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for chattel

Recent Examples of Synonyms for chattel

Noun

Their peace shatters when Sovieshu rescues Rashta (Lee Se-young), a runaway slave, on a royal hunt and brings her home as his concubine.

— Ophélie Surcouf, Variety, 3 Nov. 2026
With anxieties rising across the land, the couple’s relationship begins to fracture when Sovieshu falls in love with a runaway slave and attempts to move heaven and earth to win her heart.

— Denise Petski, Deadline, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of slave

Noun

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— Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 1 Nov. 2026
Consider pairing your pants with a print bomber jacket that keeps things low-key and perfect for daytime.

— India Roby, Glamour, 1 Nov. 2026

Definition of things

Noun

But Cathcarts can’t use the Flora stuff because they’re not supposed to know about the honey trap, not that Morgan knows that he is not supposed to know.

— Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2026
Capricorn December 22 – January 19 The everyday stuff could go surprisingly well today.

— Tarot.com, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 Oct. 2026