beast
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From Middle English beeste, beste, from Old French beste (French bête), from Latin bēstia (“animal, beast”); many cognates – see bēstia.
Inflected forms:
form: beasts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: beest
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: beasts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: beasting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: beasted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: beasted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: beest
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: more beast
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most beast
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: beest
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Any four-footed land mammal.
pos: noun
examples: Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat.
gloss: All non-human animals seen as a group.
pos: noun
tags: collective
often
examples: Language is what separates man and beast.
gloss: A person who behaves in a violent, antisocial or uncivilized manner.
pos: noun
gloss: A domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: […] it always had the making of a fine beast about it, but up to the time I had it up here in a stall by itself it did not get the chance to make any headway [ie, fatten], all its mates were down on it and it never seemed to fill itself. […] A big framed beast takes a lot of food — expensive food at that [—] to keep it doing […]
Boxer was an enormous beast, nearly eighteen hands high, and as strong as any two ordinary horses put together.
‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared.[…]’
gloss: A monstrously unusual and dangerous animal.
pos: noun
gloss: Anything regarded as larger or more powerful than one of its normal size or strength.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: That is a beast of a stadium.
The subwoofer that comes with this set of speakers is a beast.
gloss: Someone who is particularly impressive, especially athletically or physically.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A sex offender.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
examples: Shouts had been heard: 'We're coming to kill you, beasts.' In desperation, Rule 43s had tried to barricade their doors[…]
For many prisoners and in many prisons, antipathy towards 'nonces' or 'beasts' is little more than an idea[…]
gloss: Something unpleasant and difficult.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: […] Even unopposed, the natural obstacles are formidable, and defending his line of advance will be a beast of a problem."
He'd be in the hospital a few days — broken collarbone, a cast on his arm, a beast of a headache — but fine.
gloss: A thing or matter, especially a difficult or unruly one.
pos: noun
examples: Now, the nucleus of a heavy element is a very peculiar beast.
'Lucy Leave', also known as 'Lucy Lea in Blue Tights', is a stranger beast altogether. Musically it is as derivative as everything else the band was playing at this time
But Wasting Light, recorded analog to tape (API 1608 32track, two Studer 827s) with no computers, not even to mix or master, is an entirely different beast.
Murder is a stranger beast than suicide, although the end result of both is the same.
gloss: To impose arduous exercise upon, either as training or as punishment.
pos: verb
tags: UK
transitive
examples: Recalling his training experiences in the Army and now the Prison Service, this young male officer remarked: In the Army, to get beasted was to be given a lot of psychological pressure […]
gloss: To bully or harass.
pos: verb
tags: UK
slang
transitive
examples: The old school of prisoner who have seen it all when, now I don't mean this nastily, when they were beasted, and they did what they were told, there were no ifs or buts, nowadays there are questions, there are grey areas and we're more sympathetic […]
gloss: To engage in sexual intercourse with, particularly in an illicit context.
pos: verb
tags: Scotland
slang
transitive
examples: That teacher is under investigation for beasting wee 'uns.
gloss: great; excellent; powerful
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: There is another type from Siemens which is the HYB 39S64XXX(AT/ATL) -8B version (notice the "B" and the end) which is totally beast altogether.
Translation: a piece of crap, but the rest of the car was totally beast.
Related words: bestial
bestiality
bestiary
bête noire
bêtise
hartebeest
wildebeest
belluine
Derived words: beastdom
beasten
beast fable
beast-gate
beasthood
beastie
beastify
beastish
beastkeeper
beastkind
beastlike
beastling
beastly
beastman
beastmaster
beastmistress
beast mode
beastship
beast with two backs
beauty and the beast
bebeast
belly of the beast
big beast
different beast
hambeast
hosebeast
hypebeast
king of beasts
lobola-beast
mark of the beast
merbeast
nature of the beast
neatbeast
Number of the Beast
obeast
shitbeast
starve the beast
thunder beast
unbeast
unicorn beast
werebeast
beast on
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: bishë
lang: Albanian
word: zullap
lang: Amharic
word: አውሬ
roman: ʾäwre
lang: Arabic
word: وَحْش
roman: waḥš
lang: Armenian
word: կենդանի
roman: kendani
lang: Armenian
word: գազան
roman: gazan
lang: Armenian
word: ջանավար
roman: ǰanavar
lang: Asturian
word: bestia
lang: Asturian
word: fiera
lang: Atong (India)
word: mat
lang: Bashkir
word: хайуан
roman: xaywan
lang: Basque
word: aberetzar
lang: Belarusian
word: звер
roman: zvjer
lang: Belarusian
word: зьвер
roman: zʹvjer
lang: Belarusian
word: жывёла
roman: žyvjóla
lang: Bulgarian
word: звяр
roman: zvjar
lang: Bulgarian
word: живо́тно
roman: živótno
lang: Carpathian Rusyn
word: звірь
roman: zvirʹ
lang: Catalan
word: bèstia
lang: Catalan
word: fera
lang: Cebuano
word: mananap
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 四足獸 /四足兽
roman: sì zú shòu
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 獸 /兽
roman: shòu
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 野獸 /野兽
roman: yěshòu
lang: Chukchi
word: гынник
roman: gynnik
lang: Czech
word: zvíře
lang: Czech
word: bestie
lang: Czech
word: živočich
lang: Danish
word: bæst
lang: Danish
word: vilddyr
lang: Danish
word: dyr
lang: Dutch
word: beest
lang: Dutch
word: wild dier
lang: Dutch
word: dier
lang: Esperanto
word: besto
lang: Estonian
word: elajas
lang: Finnish
word: elukka
lang: Finnish
word: peto
lang: French
word: bête
lang: French
word: bête sauvage
lang: Middle French
word: beste
lang: Old French
word: beste
lang: Georgian
word: მხეცი
roman: mxeci
lang: Georgian
word: ცხოველი
roman: cxoveli
lang: German
word: Tier
lang: German
word: Bestie
lang: Gothic
word: 𐌳𐌹𐌿𐍃
roman: dius
lang: Greek
word: τέρας
roman: téras
lang: Greek
word: θηρίο
roman: thirío
lang: Ancient Greek
word: θήρ
roman: thḗr
lang: Ancient Greek
word: θηρίον
roman: thēríon
lang: Haitian Creole
word: bèt
lang: Hebrew
word: חַיָּה
roman: ḥayyá
lang: Hebrew
word: בְּהֵמָה
roman: behemá
lang: Higaonon
word: langgam
lang: Hindi
word: वहश
roman: vahaś
lang: Hindi
word: जानवर
roman: jānvar
lang: Hindi
word: हैवान
roman: haivān
lang: Hindi
word: जंतु
roman: jantu
lang: Hindi
word: मृग
roman: mŕg
lang: Hungarian
word: vadállat
lang: Hungarian
word: bestia
lang: Hungarian
word: dög
lang: Ido
word: bestio
lang: Irish
word: beithíoch
lang: Istriot
word: bies'cia
lang: Italian
word: bestia
lang: Italian
word: belva
lang: Japanese
word: 野獣
roman: yajū
lang: Japanese
word: 猛獣
roman: mōjū
lang: Japanese
word: 獣
roman: kemono
lang: Kaingang
word: mĩg
lang: Kapampangan
word: ulimo
lang: Kashmiri
word: جانور
roman: jānōr
lang: Kazakh
word: хайуан
roman: xaiuan
lang: Kazakh
word: аң
roman: añ
lang: Korean
word: 짐승
roman: jimseung
lang: Korean
word: 야수
roman: yasu
lang: Central Kurdish
word: لاور
roman: lawr
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: lawir
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: rawir
lang: Kyrgyz
word: аң
roman: aŋ
lang: Kyrgyz
word: айбан
roman: ayban
lang: Kyrgyz
word: жырткыч
roman: jırtkıc
lang: Latgalian
word: zviers
lang: Latgalian
word: dzeivnīks
lang: Latgalian
word: žeivots
lang: Latin
word: bēstia
lang: Latin
word: fera
lang: Latvian
word: dzīvnieks
lang: Latvian
word: zvērs
lang: Lithuanian
word: žvėris
lang: Macedonian
word: ѕвер
roman: dzver
lang: Macedonian
word: животно
roman: životno
lang: Eastern Mari
word: янлык
roman: janlyk
lang: Middle English
word: beste
lang: Mongolian
word: ан
roman: an
lang: Mongolian
word: араатан
roman: araatan
lang: Nahuatl
word: tecuani
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: beist
lang: Occitan
word: bèstia
lang: Occitan
word: fèra
lang: Church Slavic
word: звѣрь
roman: zvěrĭ
lang: Old East Slavic
word: звѣрь
roman: zvěrĭ
lang: Old English
word: dēor
lang: Pannonian Rusyn
word: жвир
roman: žvir
lang: Pashto
word: ژوي
roman: žoy, žuy
lang: Iranian Persian
word: دَد
roman: dad
lang: Iranian Persian
word: حِیوان
roman: heyvân
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Tia
lang: Polish
word: zwierzę
lang: Polish
word: bestia
lang: Portuguese
word: fera
lang: Portuguese
word: besta
lang: Punjabi
word: ਹੈਵਾਨ
roman: haivān
lang: Punjabi
word: حَیوان
roman: ḥaivān
lang: Punjabi
word: حَیوان
roman: ḥaivān
lang: Romanian
word: bestie
lang: Romanian
word: fiară
lang: Russian
word: зверь
roman: zverʹ
lang: Russian
word: живо́тное
roman: živótnoje
lang: Russian
word: тварь
roman: tvarʹ
lang: Russian
word: бе́стия
roman: béstija
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: ainmhidh
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: beathach
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: зве̑р
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: звије̑р
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: чу̏довӣште
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: живо̀тиња
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: зверка
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: звијерка
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: zver
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: zvijer
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: čȕdovīšte
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: živòtinja
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: zverka
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: zvijerka
lang: Slovak
word: zviera
lang: Slovak
word: zver
lang: Slovak
word: šelma
lang: Slovak
word: živočích
lang: Slovene
word: zver
lang: Slovene
word: žival
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: zwěrje
lang: Upper Sorbian
word: zwěrjo
lang: Spanish
word: bestia
lang: Swahili
word: nunda
lang: Swedish
word: best
lang: Tagalog
word: halimaw
lang: Tajik
word: дад
roman: dad
lang: Tajik
word: дарранда
roman: darranda
lang: Tajik
word: ҳайвон
roman: hayvon
lang: Telugu
word: జంతువు
roman: jantuvu
lang: Telugu
word: మృగము
roman: mr̥gamu
lang: Turkish
word: canavar
lang: Turkish
word: hayvan
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: حیوان
roman: hayvan
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: جاناوار
roman: canavar
lang: Ukrainian
word: звір
roman: zvir
lang: Ukrainian
word: твари́на
roman: tvarýna
lang: Urdu
word: حَیوان
roman: haivān
lang: Uzbek
word: hayvon
lang: Volapük
word: nim
lang: Volapük
word: lunim
lang: Volapük
word: bestaf
lang: Yiddish
word: בעסטיע
roman: bestye