slaveboy
nounEtymology Compound of slave + boy.
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A boy who is a slave.
- An instance of this argumentative strategy occurs in Plato’s Meno, in an episode involving a slaveboy. Socrates asks a slaveboy to answer a series of questions about the relative proportions of sides of a square.1998, Paul K. Moser, Dwayne H. Mulder, J.D. Trout, The Theory of Knowledge: A Thematic Introduction, New York, NY: Oxford University Press, page 104:
- […] passage in which a slaveboy — who has never had any geometry lessons — is led by a series of questions to invent for himself a theorem related to that of Pythagoras […]2004, Denis Charles Phillips, Jonas F. Soltis, Perspectives on Learning (page 11)
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- When a slaveboy named Husrev died of illness near Azov in 1667, Evliya composed an elegy for him […]2006, Robert Dankoff, An Ottoman Mentality, page 126: