• (British, America) IPA: /biːst/

beast (plural beasts)

1. Any animal other than a human; usually only applied to land vertebrates, especially large or dangerous four-footed ones.
2. (more specific) A domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal.
   • 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 1, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473 ↗:

     Boxer was an enormous beast, nearly eighteen hands high, and as strong as any two ordinary horses put together.

3. A person who behaves in a violent, antisocial or uncivilized manner.
4. (slang) Anything regarded as larger or more powerful than one of its normal size or strength.

   That is a beast of a stadium.

   The subwoofer that comes with this set of speakers is a beast.

5. (slang) Someone who is particularly impressive, especially athletically or physically.
6. (slang, derogatory, prisons) A sex offender.
   • 1994, Elaine Player, Michael Jenkins, Prisons After Woolf: Reform Through Riot (page 190)

     Shouts had been heard: 'We're coming to kill you, beasts.' In desperation, Rule 43s had tried to barricade their doors […]

7. (figuratively) Something unpleasant and difficult.
   • 2000, Tom Clancy, The Bear and the Dragon, Berkley (2001), ISBN 9780425180969, page 905 ↗:

     […] Even unopposed, the natural obstacles are formidable, and defending his line of advance will be a beast of a problem."

   • 2006, Heather Burt, Adam's Peak, Dundurn Press (2006), ISBN 9781550026467, page 114 ↗:

     He'd be in the hospital a few days — broken collarbone, a cast on his arm, a beast of a headache — but fine.

8. A thing or matter, especially a difficult or unruly one.

• bestial
• bestiary

• French: bête, bête sauvage
• German: Tier, Bestie
• Italian: bestia, belva
• Portuguese: fera, besta
• Russian: зверь
• Spanish: bestia

• French: bête
• German: Tier

• German: Unmensch, Bestie, Biest
• Portuguese: fera, besta
• Russian: монстр
• Spanish: bestia, animal, salvaje

beast (beasts, present participle beasting; past and past participle beasted)

1. (British, military) to impose arduous exercises, either as training or as punishment.

beast

1. (slang, chiefly Midwestern and northeastern US) great; excellent; powerful
   • 1999, "Jason Chue", AMD K6-2 350mhz, FIC VA503+, LGS 64mb PC100 sdram (on newsgroup jaring.pcbase)

     There is another type from Siemens which is the HYB 39S64XXX(AT/ATL) -8B version (notice the "B" and the end) which is totally beast altogether.

1. (biblical) A figure in the Book of Revelation (Apocalypse), often identified with Satan or the Antichrist.
2. A wild animal, or seemingly so, which roams free in a country it is usually only found in zoos. (For example The Beast of Bodmin Moor).

• German: Tier
• Russian: Зверь
• Spanish: Bestia