# Burden

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**Burden** or **burthen** may refer to:

## People

- [Burden (surname)](/source/Burden_(surname)), people with the surname Burden

## Places

- [Burden, Kansas](/source/Burden,_Kansas), United States
- [Burden, Luxembourg](/source/Burden,_Luxembourg)

## Arts, entertainment, and media

### Films

- [*Burden* (2018 film)](/source/Burden_(2018_film)), an American drama film
- [*The Burden* (film)](/source/The_Burden_(film)), a Swedish independent short film

### Literature

- *[The Burden](/source/The_Burden)*, by Agatha Christie, 1956
- *The Burdens*, a play by [John Ruganda](/source/John_Ruganda), 1972

### Music

#### Songs

- "Burden", a song by As I Lay Dying from the album *[Through Storms Ahead](/source/Through_Storms_Ahead)*
- "Burden", an interlude by Humanity's Last Breath from the album *[Ashen](/source/Ashen_(album))*
- "Burden", a song by Opeth from the album *[Watershed](/source/Watershed_(Opeth_album))*
- "Burden", a song by Tesseract from *[War of Being](/source/War_of_Being)*
- "Burden", a song by [Keith Urban](/source/Keith_Urban_discography#2010s)
- "Burdens", a song by Ion Dissonance from the album *[Cast the First Stone](/source/Cast_the_First_Stone_(Ion_Dissonance_album))*
- "Burdens", a song by Kenny Wayne Shepherd from *[The Place You're In](/source/The_Place_You're_In)*
- "Burdens", a song by [The Yawpers](/source/The_Yawpers)
- "The Burden", a song by Bury Tomorrow from the album *[Earthbound](/source/Earthbound_(Bury_Tomorrow_album))*
- "The Burden", a song by Crystal Lake from the album *[Dimension](/source/Dimension_(Crystal_Lake_album))*
- "The Burden", an interlude by Memphis May Fire from the album *[The Hollow](/source/The_Hollow_(album))*
- "The Burden", a song by Strife from the album *[Witness a Rebirth](/source/Witness_a_Rebirth)*
- "The Burden", a song by Trail of Tears from the album *[Disclosure in Red](/source/Disclosure_in_Red)*

#### Other uses in music

- A [drone](/source/Drone_(music)) (sometimes spelt bourdon or burdon) produced by certain instruments
- Burden (or burthen), a [refrain](/source/Refrain) in English hymns and songs
- [*Burdens* (album)](/source/Burdens_(album)), a 2006 album by Ava Inferi

## Other uses

- Burden, an old accounting term for [overhead](/source/Overhead_(business)) costs
- Burden, in electrical engineering is the impedance presented to the secondary winding of a [current transformer](/source/Current_transformer)
- Burden (or burthen), an old term for ship's tonnage of cargo carrying capacity, from the archaic "[burthen](/source/Builder's_Old_Measurement)" or "byrthen"
- A legislative burden which [regulatory reform](/source/Regulatory_reform) aims to remove or reduce

## See also

- [Burden of proof (disambiguation)](/source/Burden_of_proof_(disambiguation))
- [Burdon (disambiguation)](/source/Burdon_(disambiguation))
- [Onus (disambiguation)](/source/Onus_(disambiguation))

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