Burden Explained

Burden or burthen may refer to:

People

• Burden (surname), people with the surname Burden

Places

• Burden, Kansas, United States
• Burden, Luxembourg

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

• Burden (2018 film), an American drama film
• The Burden (film), a Swedish independent short film

Literature

• The Burden, by Agatha Christie, 1956
• The Burdens, a play by John Ruganda, 1972

Music

Songs

• "Burden", a single by Opeth from the album Watershed
• "Burden", a 2019 song by Keith Urban
• "Burden", a song by Tesseract from War of Being
• "Burdens", a song by Kenny Wayne Shepherd from The Place You're In
• "Burdens", a song by The Yawpers
• "The Burden", an interlude by Memphis May Fire from the album The Hollow
• "The Burden", a song by Trail of Tears from the album Disclosure in Red

Other uses in music

• A drone (sometimes spelt bourdon or burdon) produced by certain instruments
• Burden (or burthen), a refrain in English hymns and songs
• Burdens (album), a 2006 album by Ava Inferi

Other uses

• Burden, an old accounting term for overhead costs
• Burden, in electrical engineering is the impedance presented to the secondary winding of a current transformer
• Burden (or burthen), an old term for ship's tonnage of cargo carrying capacity, from the archaic "burthen" or "byrthen"
• A legislative burden which regulatory reform aims to remove or reduce

See also

• Burden of proof (disambiguation)
• Burdon (disambiguation)
• Onus (disambiguation)