Beast

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An animal other than a human, especially a large four-footed mammal.
  • n. New England & Southern U.S. A large domestic animal, especially a horse or bull.
  • n. Animal nature as opposed to intellect or spirit: "So far the beast in us has insisted upon having its full say” ( William Dean Howells).
  • n. A brutal, contemptible person.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Any animal other than a human; usually only applied to land vertebrates. Especially large or dangerous four-footed ones
  • n. A domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal:
  • n. A person who behaves in a violent, antisocial or uncivilized manner.
  • n. A large and impressive automobile
  • n. A sex offender.
  • v. to impose arduous exercises, either as training or as punishment.
  • adj. great; excellent; powerful
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Any living creature; an animal; -- including man, insects, etc.
  • n. Any four-footed animal, that may be used for labor, food, or sport.
  • n. any animal other than a human; -- opposed to man.
  • n. Fig.: A coarse, brutal, filthy, or degraded fellow.
  • n. A game at cards similar to loo.
  • n. A penalty at beast, omber, etc. Hence: To be beasted, to be beaten at beast, omber, etc.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A living being; an animal: in this extended sense now only in dialectal or colloquial use.
  • n. Any four-footed animal, as distinguished from fowls, insects, fishes, and man: as, beasts of burden; beasts of the chase; beasts of the forest. It is applied chiefly to large animals.
  • n. Any irrational animal, as opposed to man, as in the phrase man and beast, where beast usually means horse.
  • n. plural In rural economy, originally all domestic animals, but now only cattle; especially, fatting cattle as distinguished from other animals.
  • n. In a limited specific use, a horse: as, my beast is tired out.
  • n. Figuratively, a brutal man; a person rude, coarse, filthy, or acting in a manner unworthy of a rational creature.
  • n. [In this use also spelled as orig. pron., bāste, ⟨ F. beste, now béte, in same sense.] An old game of cards resembling loo. A penalty or forfeit at this game, and also in ombre and quadrille.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
  • n. a cruelly rapacious person
  • Antonym
    man   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    aggressor    attacker    assailant    assaulter   
    Cross Reference
    Form
    beastly   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    brute    animal    dog    hog    swine    hound    cure   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    East    Ne    Northeast    Se    Trendiest    Trieste    ceased    deceased    decreased    east   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    animal    monster    wolf    dragon    cat    warrior    brute    bear    fish    one