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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (3)

1. the state of being under the control of a force or influence or abstract power;
- Example: "he was in bondage to fear:
- Example: "he sought release from his bondage to Satan"
- Example: "a self freed from the bondage of time"

2. the state of being under the control of another person;
[syn: bondage, slavery, thrall, thralldom, thraldom]

3. sexual practice that involves physically restraining (by cords or handcuffs) one of the partners; 



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Bondage \Bond"age\ (-[asl]j), n. [LL. bondagium. See Bond, a.]
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   1. The state of being bound; condition of being under
      restraint; restraint of personal liberty by compulsion;
      involuntary servitude; slavery; captivity.
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            The King, when he designed you for my guard,
            Resolved he would not make my bondage hard.
                                                  --Dryden.
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   2. Obligation; tie of duty.
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            He must resolve by no means to be . . . brought
            under the bondage of observing oaths. --South.
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   3. (Old Eng. Law) Villenage; tenure of land on condition of
      doing the meanest services for the owner.
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   Syn: Thralldom; bond service; imprisonment.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

bondage
    n 1: the state of being under the control of a force or
         influence or abstract power; "he was in bondage to fear:;
         "he sought release from his bondage to Satan"; "a self
         freed from the bondage of time"
    2: the state of being under the control of another person [syn:
       bondage, slavery, thrall, thralldom, thraldom]
    3: sexual practice that involves physically restraining (by
       cords or handcuffs) one of the partners


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

31 Moby Thesaurus words for "bondage":
   absolutism, bond service, captivity, control, debt slavery,
   deprivation of freedom, disenfranchisement, disfranchisement,
   domination, enslavement, enthrallment, feudalism, feudality,
   helotism, helotry, indentureship, peonage, restraint, serfdom,
   serfhood, servility, servitude, slavery, subjection, subjugation,
   thrall, thralldom, tyranny, vassalage, villenage, yoke




Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary:

Bondage
   of Israel in Egypt (Ex. 2:23, 25; 5), which is called the "house
   of bondage" (13:3; 20:2). This word is used also with reference
   to the captivity in Babylon (Isa. 14:3), and the oppression of
   the Persian king (Ezra 9:8, 9).