beast – English noun declension

English noun forms of beast

Noun: beast
Singularbeast
Pluralbeasts

Sample Sentences

  • Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat. [1611, “Leviticus 11:3”, in King James Version:]
  • Language is what separates man and beast.
  • […] it always had the making of a fine beast about it, but up to the time I had it up here in a stall by itself it did not get the chance to make any headway [ie, fatten], all its mates were down on it and it never seemed to fill itself. […] A big framed beast takes a lot of food — expensive food at that [—] to keep it doing […] [1908 September 21, “The fattening beast”, in Mark Lane Express Agricultural Journal, page 340:]
  • Boxer was an enormous beast, nearly eighteen hands high, and as strong as any two ordinary horses put together. [1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:]
  • ‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared.[…]’ [1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 7, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:]
  • That is a beast of a stadium.
  • The subwoofer that comes with this set of speakers is a beast.
  • Shouts had been heard: 'We're coming to kill you, beasts.' In desperation, Rule 43s had tried to barricade their doors[…] [1994, Elaine Player, Michael Jenkins, Prisons After Woolf: Reform Through Riot, page 190:]
  • For many prisoners and in many prisons, antipathy towards 'nonces' or 'beasts' is little more than an idea[…] [1994, Adam Sampson, Acts of Abuse: Sex Offenders And the Criminal Justice System, page 83:]
  • […] Even unopposed, the natural obstacles are formidable, and defending his line of advance will be a beast of a problem." [2000, Tom Clancy, The Bear and the Dragon, Berkley, published 2001, →ISBN, page 905:]
  • He'd be in the hospital a few days — broken collarbone, a cast on his arm, a beast of a headache — but fine. [2006, Heather Burt, Adam's Peak, Dundurn Press, published 2006, →ISBN, page 114:]
  • Now, the nucleus of a heavy element is a very peculiar beast. [2003, John Derbyshire, Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problems in Mathematics:]
  • 'Lucy Leave', also known as 'Lucy Lea in Blue Tights', is a stranger beast altogether. Musically it is as derivative as everything else the band was playing at this time [2010, Rob Chapman, A Very Irregular Head: The Life of Syd Barrett, page 65:]
  • But Wasting Light, recorded analog to tape (API 1608 32track, two Studer 827s) with no computers, not even to mix or master, is an entirely different beast. [2012, Kylee Swenson Gordon, Electronic Musician Presents the Recording Secrets Behind 50 Great Albums:]
  • Murder is a stranger beast than suicide, although the end result of both is the same. [2017, Riley Sager, Final Girls, page 141:]

Etymology

From Middle English beeste, beste, from Old French beste (French bête), from Latin bēstia (“animal, beast”); many cognates – see bēstia. See: Middle English Nouns 'beeste', French Nouns 'bête', Latin Nouns 'bēstia'.

Verbs referencing "beast"

Spanish Nouns bestia, Spanish Nouns bicho.