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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bondage \Bond"age\, noun [LL. bondagium. See {Bond}, adjective]
1. The state of being bound; condition of being under restraint; restraint of personal liberty by compulsion; involuntary servitude; slavery; captivity.
The King, when he designed you for my guard, Resolved he would not make my bondage hard. --Dryden.
2. Obligation; tie of duty.
He must resolve by no means to be . . . brought under the bondage of observing oaths. --South.
3. (Old Eng. Law) Villenage; tenure of land on condition of doing the meanest services for the owner.
Syn: Thralldom; bond service; imprisonment.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
bondage
noun
1: the state of being under the control of another person [syn: {slavery}, {thrall}, {thralldom}, {thraldom}]
2: sexual practice that involves physically restraining (by cords or handcuffs) one of the partners
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
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).
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