'Burden' definitions:
Definition of 'burden'
From: WordNet
noun
An onerous or difficult concern; "the burden of responsibility"; "that's a load off my mind" [syn: burden, load, encumbrance, incumbrance, onus]
noun
noun
The central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work [syn: effect, essence, burden, core, gist]
noun
The central idea that is expanded in a document or discourse
verb
verb
Definition of 'Burden'
From: GCIDE
- Burden \Bur"den\ (b[^u]r"d'n), n. [OE. burdoun the bass in music, F. bourdon; cf. LL. burdo drone, a long organ pipe, a staff, a mule. Prob. of imitative origin. Cf. Bourdon.]
- 1. The verse repeated in a song, or the return of the theme at the end of each stanza; the chorus; refrain. Hence: That which is often repeated or which is dwelt upon; the main topic; as, the burden of a prayer. [1913 Webster]
- I would sing my song without a burden. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The drone of a bagpipe. --Ruddiman. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Burden'
From: GCIDE
- Burden \Bur"den\, n. [See Burdon.] A club. [Obs.] --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Burden'
From: GCIDE
- Burden \Bur"den\ (b[^u]"d'n), n. [Written also burthen.] [OE. burden, burthen, birthen, birden, AS. byr[eth]en; akin to Icel. byr[eth]i, Dan. byrde, Sw. b["o]rda, G. b["u]rde, OHG. burdi, Goth. ba['u]r[thorn]ei, fr. the root of E. bear, AS. beran, Goth. bairan. [root]92. See 1st Bear.]
- 1. That which is borne or carried; a load. [1913 Webster]
- Plants with goodly burden bowing. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That which is borne with labor or difficulty; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive. [1913 Webster]
- Deaf, giddy, helpless, left alone, To all my friends a burden grown. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry; as, a ship of a hundred tons burden. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Mining) The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Metal.) The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace. --Raymond. [1913 Webster]
- 6. A fixed quantity of certain commodities; as, a burden of gad steel, 120 pounds. [1913 Webster]
- 7. A birth. [Obs. & R.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Beast of burden, an animal employed in carrying burdens.
- Burden of proof [L. onus probandi] (Law), the duty of proving a particular position in a court of law, a failure in the performance of which duty calls for judgment against the party on whom the duty is imposed. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Burden, Load.
- Usage: A burden is, in the literal sense, a weight to be borne; a load is something laid upon us to be carried. Hence, when used figuratively, there is usually a difference between the two words. Our burdens may be of such a nature that we feel bound to bear them cheerfully or without complaint. They may arise from the nature of our situation; they may be allotments of Providence; they may be the consequences of our errors. What is upon us, as a load, we commonly carry with greater reluctance or sense of oppression. Men often find the charge of their own families to be a burden; but if to this be added a load of care for others, the pressure is usually serve and irksome. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Burden'
From: GCIDE
- Burden \Bur"den\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Burdened; p. pr. & vb. n. Burdening.]
- 1. To encumber with weight (literal or figurative); to lay a heavy load upon; to load. [1913 Webster]
- I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened. --2 Cor. viii. 13. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To oppress with anything grievous or trying; to overload; as, to burden a nation with taxes. [1913 Webster]
- My burdened heart would break. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable). [R.] [1913 Webster]
- It is absurd to burden this act on Cromwell. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To load; encumber; overload; oppress. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'burden'
From: GCIDE
- Burdon \Bur"don\, n. [See Bourdon.] A pilgrim's staff. [Written also burden.] --Rom. of R. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Burden'
From: Easton
- Burden
- A load of any kind (Ex. 23:5).
- A severe task (Ex. 2:11).
- A difficult duty, requiring effort (Ex. 18:22).
- A prophecy of a calamitous or disastrous nature (Isa. 13:1; 17:1; Hab. 1:1, etc.).
Synonyms of 'burden'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accommodation,
- add,
- adjoin,
- affix,
- afflict,
- affliction,
- agglutinate,
- agitate,
- albatross,
- allegiance,
- amount,
- anacrusis,
- annex,
- antistrophe,
- append,
- arraignability,
- arraignableness,
- assigned task,
- attach,
- bag,
- bale,
- bane,
- barrel,
- basis,
- bass,
- bass passage,
- bear down on,
- bear hard upon,
- bis,
- bitter cup,
- bitter draft,
- bitter draught,
- bitter pill,
- blameworthiness,
- bloody hands,
- bob,
- body,
- book,
- bother,
- bottle,
- bounden duty,
- bourdon,
- box,
- bridge,
- bugbear,
- burden of care,
- burden with,
- burdening,
- burthen,
- business,
- busy,
- cadence,
- calamity,
- call of duty,
- can,
- cankerworm of care,
- canto,
- capacity,
- care,
- cargo,
- carload,
- cartload,
- case,
- censurability,
- censurableness,
- chant,
- chapter,
- charge,
- chargeability,
- charging,
- chest voice,
- chorus,
- clog,
- coda,
- coloratura,
- commitment,
- complicate,
- complicity,
- concern,
- conjoin,
- content,
- cordage,
- couplet,
- cramp,
- crate,
- criminality,
- cripple,
- cross,
- crown of thorns,
- crush one,
- crushing burden,
- culpability,
- cumber,
- cumbrance,
- curse,
- deadweight,
- death,
- decorate,
- dedication,
- deference,
- demand,
- destruction,
- development,
- devoir,
- devotion,
- difficulty,
- dirty hands,
- disadvantage,
- discomfort,
- disease,
- disquiet,
- distich,
- distress,
- disturb,
- ditto,
- division,
- drag,
- drive,
- drone,
- drone bass,
- duties and responsibilities,
- duty,
- embarrass,
- embarrassment,
- encumber,
- encumbrance,
- enjoin,
- enmesh,
- ensnarl,
- entangle,
- entoil,
- entrammel,
- entrap,
- entwine,
- envoi,
- epode,
- essence,
- ethics,
- evil,
- exact,
- exhaust,
- exposition,
- fag,
- falsetto,
- fasten upon,
- fealty,
- fetter,
- figure,
- fill,
- focus of attention,
- focus of interest,
- folderol,
- freight,
- freight with,
- gall,
- gall and wormwood,
- gist,
- glue on,
- go hard with,
- go ill with,
- gravamen,
- grievance,
- guilt,
- guiltiness,
- guilty conscience,
- hamper,
- hamstring,
- handicap,
- harm,
- harmonic close,
- haul,
- haunt,
- haunt the memory,
- head,
- head voice,
- heading,
- heap,
- heap up,
- heptastich,
- hexastich,
- hitch on,
- hobble,
- homage,
- impeachability,
- impeachableness,
- impede,
- impediment,
- impedimenta,
- imperative,
- implication,
- impose,
- impose on,
- impose upon,
- imposition,
- inconvenience,
- incubus,
- inculpation,
- incumbency,
- indictability,
- indictableness,
- infix,
- inflict on,
- inflict upon,
- infliction,
- interlude,
- intermezzo,
- introductory phrase,
- involve,
- involvement,
- issue,
- join with,
- keep busy,
- lade,
- lading,
- lame,
- lay,
- lay on,
- levy,
- lie on,
- lime,
- limit,
- line,
- line of duty,
- living issue,
- load,
- load with care,
- loading,
- loyalty,
- lumber,
- main point,
- mass,
- matter,
- matter in hand,
- measure,
- meat,
- millstone,
- mission,
- monostich,
- motif,
- motive,
- movement,
- musical phrase,
- musical sentence,
- must,
- nemesis,
- net,
- obligation,
- obsess,
- octastich,
- octave,
- octet,
- onus,
- open wound,
- oppress,
- oppression,
- ornament,
- ottava rima,
- ought,
- overburden,
- overdrive,
- overload,
- overtask,
- overtax,
- overtaxing,
- overweigh,
- overweight,
- overweighting,
- overwork,
- pack,
- pack away,
- pack of troubles,
- part,
- passage,
- paste on,
- payload,
- peccancy,
- peck of troubles,
- penalty,
- pentastich,
- period,
- perturb,
- pest,
- pestilence,
- phrase,
- pile,
- pith,
- place,
- plague,
- plus,
- pocket,
- point,
- point at issue,
- point in question,
- postfix,
- poundage,
- prefix,
- press down,
- press hard upon,
- pressure,
- prey on,
- problem,
- purport,
- put,
- put down,
- put on,
- put to it,
- put upon,
- put with,
- quantity,
- quatrain,
- question,
- red-handedness,
- refrain,
- repeat,
- repetend,
- reprehensibility,
- reproachableness,
- reprovability,
- reprovableness,
- resolution,
- respect,
- response,
- rest hard upon,
- rhyme royal,
- ritornello,
- room,
- rubric,
- running sore,
- sack,
- saddle,
- saddle with,
- saddling,
- scourge,
- sea of troubles,
- section,
- self-imposed duty,
- septet,
- sestet,
- set,
- sextet,
- shackle,
- ship,
- shipload,
- slap on,
- snarl,
- sorrow,
- space,
- Spenserian stanza,
- stack,
- stanza,
- statement,
- stave,
- store,
- stow,
- stowage,
- strain,
- strophe,
- subject,
- subject matter,
- subject of thought,
- subject to,
- subjoin,
- substance,
- suffix,
- superadd,
- superincumbency,
- superpose,
- surcharge,
- sweat,
- syllable,
- tack on,
- tag,
- tag on,
- tailpiece,
- tangle,
- task,
- tax,
- taxing,
- tercet,
- terza rima,
- tetrastich,
- text,
- theme,
- thorn,
- thrust,
- tire,
- toil,
- tonnage,
- topic,
- torment,
- trailerload,
- trainload,
- trammel,
- treble,
- triplet,
- tristich,
- trouble,
- truckload,
- try one,
- tutti,
- tutti passage,
- undersong,
- unite with,
- upset,
- upshot,
- vanload,
- variation,
- verse,
- vexation,
- visitation,
- voce,
- voce di petto,
- voce di testa,
- voice,
- volume,
- waters of bitterness,
- wear out,
- weary,
- weigh,
- weigh down,
- weigh heavy on,
- weigh on,
- weigh upon,
- weight,
- weight down,
- weight down with,
- white elephant,
- woe,
- work,
- yoke with
Burden, KS -- U.S. city in Kansas
From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Burden, KS -- U.S. city in Kansas
Population (2000) :
564
Housing Units (2000) :
236
Land area (2000) :
0.526134 sq. miles (1.362682 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.009121 sq. miles (0.023623 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
0.535255 sq. miles (1.386305 sq. km)
FIPS code :
09250
Located within :
Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location :
37.314128 N, 96.755377 W
ZIP Codes (1990) :
67019
Note :
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.