Dictionary Definition
beast
Noun
1 a living organism characterized by voluntary movement [syn: animal, animate being, brute, creature, fauna]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
From beste (French: bête), from bestiaPronunciation
- Rhymes: -iːst
Noun
- Any animal other than a human; usually only applied to vertebrates, sometimes excluding birds.
- A person who behaves in a violent, antisocial or uncivilised manner.
Translations
non-human animal
- Albanian: bishë
- Arabic:
- Catalan: bèstia
- Chinese: 四足兽 / 四足獸 (sì zú shoù), 獸 / 兽 (shoù), 禽兽 / 禽獸 (qín shoù)
- Czech: zvíře
- Dutch: beest
- Finnish: eläin, selkärankainen (vertebrate)
- French: bête
- German: Tier , Bestie
- Greek: κτήνος (ktínos) , θηρίο (thirío) , θεριό (therió)
- Hebrew: בהמה (behema)
- Ido: bestio
- Italian: bestia
- Japanese: wild beast: 野獣 (やじゅう, yajyū), savage beast: 猛獣 (もうじゅう, mōjyū)
- Latvian: plēsonis
- Ndebele: belchew , ibde
- Polish: zwierzę , bestia
- Portuguese: fera , besta
- Russian: монстр (monstr) , зверь (zver’) , чудище (čúdišče) , чудовище (čudóvišče)
- Serbian: zver , čudovište , životinja
- Slovene: zver
- Spanish: bestia
- Swedish: best
- Telugu: జంతువు (jaMtuvu)
violent/antisocial person
- Albanian: bishë
- Arabic:
- Catalan: bèstia
- Chinese: 凶暴而残忍的人; 畜生 (chù shēng)
- Dutch: beest
- Finnish: hirviö, peto
- German: Biest
- Greek: κτήνος [ˈkti.no̞s] , θηρίο [θi.ˈri.o̞] , θεριό [θe̞.ˈrʝo̞]
- Hebrew: בהמה (behema)
- Japanese: 獣 (けもの (kemono), けだもの (kedamono))
- Polish: bestia , bydlak , bydlę
- Portuguese: fera , besta
- Russian: монстр (monstr) , зверь (zver’) , чудовище (čudóvišče)
- Slovene: zver , zverina
- Telugu: పశువు (paSuvu)