tôi mọi

Definition

1. Noun:
   • Slave: A person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them, historically captured or subjugated.
   • Servile person / Menial: A person in a position of extreme subservience, often viewed as lowly or abject, who is compelled to serve others completely.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Trong xã hội phong kiến, tôi mọi không có quyền tự do. (In feudal society, slaves had no freedom.)
  • Hắn đối xử với nhân viên như tôi mọi. (He treats his employees like menial servants.)

Advanced Usage

• The term "tôi mọi" is archaic and carries a strong historical and pejorative connotation. It is primarily found in historical texts or used metaphorically in modern contexts to describe severe exploitation or total subjugation, not in legal or everyday descriptions of employment.

Variants and Related Words

• Nô lệ (n): Slave. This is the more common, direct modern equivalent for "slave".
  • Chế độ nô lệ đã bị bãi bỏ. (Slavery was abolished.)
• Đầy tớ (n): Servant. A neutral term for a domestic worker, without the extreme connotation of "tôi mọi".
  • Người đầy tớ trung thành. (The loyal servant.)

Synonyms

• Slave: Bondservant, thrall.
• Menial: Drudge, lackey, underling.

Related Idioms

• Làm tôi mọi: To slave away; to work like a slave.
  • Ông ấy làm tôi mọi cho công ty cả đời. (He slaved away for the company his whole life.)