Burden or burthen may refer to:

People

Burden (surname) Burden is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Alfie Burden, English professional snooker player *Arthur Scott Burden (1879–1921), American equestrian *Barry Burden (born 1971), American political scientist *Bob Burden, American ...

, 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 John Ruganda (30 May 1941 to 8 December 2007) was Uganda's best known playwright. Beyond his work as a playwright, Ruganda was also a professor at University of North, South Africa, University of Nairobi, and Makerere University. He was born in Fo ...

, 1972

Music

Songs

* "Burden", a song by As I Lay Dying from the album '' Through Storms Ahead'' * "Burden", a song by Opeth from the album ''

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'' * "Burden", a song by Tesseract from '' War of Being'' * "Burden", a song by

Keith Urban Keith Lionel Urban ( né Urbahn; 26 October 1967) is an Australian and American country singer, songwriter and guitarist. Recognised with four Grammy Awards, he has also received 15 Academy of Country Music Awards, including the Jim Reeves Int ...

* "Burdens", a song by Kenny Wayne Shepherd from '' The Place You're In'' * "Burdens", a song by The Yawpers * "The Burden", a song by Bury Tomorrow from the album ''

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'' * "The Burden", a song by Crystal Lake from the album ''

Dimension In physics and mathematics, the dimension of a mathematical space (or object) is informally defined as the minimum number of coordinates needed to specify any point within it. Thus, a line has a dimension of one (1D) because only one coo ...

'' * "The Burden", an interlude by Memphis May Fire from the album ''

The Hollow ''The Hollow'' is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company, Dodd, Mead & Co. in 1946 and in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club in November of the sam ...

'' * "The Burden", a song by Strife from the album '' Witness a Rebirth'' * "The Burden", a song by Trail of Tears from the album ''

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Other uses in music

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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

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* Burden (or burthen), an old term for ship's tonnage of cargo carrying capacity, from the archaic " burthen" or "byrthen" *A legislative burden which

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aims to remove or reduce