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Definition: Beast Of Burden |
Beast Of BurdenNoun1. An animal such as a donkey or ox or elephant used for transporting loads or doing other heavy work. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Beast Of BurdenSynonym: jument (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Agent | Workman, artisan; craftsman, handicraftsman; mechanic, operative; working man; laboring man; demiurgus, hewers of wood and drawers of water, laborer, navvy; hand, man, day laborer, journeyman, charwoman, hack; mere tool; beast of burden, drudge, fag; lumper, roustabout. |
Carrier | Beast, beast of burden, cattle, horse, nag, palfrey, Arab, blood horse, thoroughbred, galloway, charger, courser, racer, hunter, jument, pony, filly, colt, foal, barb, roan, jade, hack, bidet, pad, cob, tit, punch, roadster, goer; racehorse, pack horse, draft horse, cart horse, dray horse, post horse; ketch; Shetland pony, shelty, sheltie; garran, garron; jennet, genet, bayard, mare, stallion, gelding; bronco, broncho, cayuse; creature, critter; cow pony, mustang, Narraganset, waler; stud. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Beast Of Burden |
| English words defined with "beast of burden": domestic ass, domestic llama, donkey ♦ Equus asinus ♦ Lama peruana. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "beast of burden": Camels. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "beast of burden": jument. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | Weighed down like a beast of burden about to break your back. (Just Can't Last; performing artist: Natalie Merchant) | |
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Books | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
beast of burden | 36 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "beast of burden"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | juhta (draught animal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | υποζύγιο (pack animal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | baagh obbyr. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eastbay ofay urdenbay вьючный животное, вьючное животное (pack animal, pack-animal, sumpter). (various references) bestia de carga. (various references) yük hayvanı (draught animal, pack animal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | iumenta, iumenti, iumentis, iumento, iumentorum, iumentum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Beast Of Burden" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: beast of burdon. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-b-d-e-e-f-n-o-r-s-t-u" | |
-3 letters: breastbone, unabsorbed, unforested. | |
-4 letters: absorbent, adsorbent, breadnuts, denatures, deuterons, eastbound, foredates, fourteens, outbreeds, outearned, resonated, sauntered, tenebrous, turbofans, undereats. | |
-5 letters: absented, absenter, absorbed, bandores, bantered, baronets, bartends, baseborn, baudrons, bestrode, bounders, breadnut, breasted, broadens, broadest, burstone, daunters, debaters, deboners, deforest, denature, dentures, deuteron, doubters, drabbest, drabbets, draftees, earstone, endostea, fadeouts, fastened, fastener, featured. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Translations: Ancient | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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