Burden or burthen may refer to:

People

Places

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

Literature

Music

Songs

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

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