burthen

Other forms of burthen

plural

burthens·

past tense

burthenned·

present participle

burthenning·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about burthen

What does burthen mean?

burthen means "a variant of `burden'". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in burthen?

burthen has 2 syllables: bur-then. The stress falls on "bur".

What is another word for burthen?

Close synonyms include burden, weight, weight down. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is burthen a common word?

burthen is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.