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 song by As I Lay Dying from the album Through Storms Ahead
  • "Burden", an interlude by Humanity's Last Breath from the album Ashen
  • "Burden", a song by Opeth from the album Watershed
  • "Burden", a song by Tesseract from War of Being
  • "Burden", a song by Keith Urban
  • "Burdens", a song by Ion Dissonance from the album Cast the First Stone
  • "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 Earthbound
  • "The Burden", a song by Crystal Lake from the album Dimension
  • "The Burden", an interlude by Memphis May Fire from the album The Hollow
  • "The Burden", a song by Strife from the album Witness a Rebirth
  • "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)