beast

IPA: bˈist

An animal, especially a large or dangerous land vertebrate.
(chiefly in Commonwealth English, more specifically) A domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal.
(often collective) All non-human animals seen as a group.
A monstrously unusual and dangerous animal.
A person who behaves in a violent, antisocial or uncivilized manner.
(slang) Anything regarded as larger or more powerful than one of its normal size or strength.
(slang) Someone who is particularly impressive, especially athletically or physically.
(prison slang, derogatory) A sex offender.
(figuratively) Something unpleasant and difficult.
A thing or matter, especially a difficult or unruly one.
(biblical) A figure in the Book of Revelation (Apocalypse), often identified with Satan or the Antichrist.
A wild, or seemingly-wild, animal that roams free in a country where it is usually only found in zoos.
(US, military, slang) A cadet's basic training at West Point.
(Internet) Acronym of Browser Exploit Against SSL/TLS.

(Britain, military) to impose arduous exercises, either as training or as punishment.
(Scotland, slang) to engage in sexual intercourse, particularly in an illicit context

Examples of "beast" in Sentences

New studies show the number of the beast is actually 616.
Getting through the little towns with this beast is a problem in of itself!
I know you're being silly and all, but the number of the beast is actually 616, not 666. boogieman
Camels are an animal, what we call a beast of burden, from the standpoint this is a young camel, obviously.
If you look in the dictionary under the word beast there are these words any nonhuman animal, especially a large, four-footed mammal.
Deep in the nature of all these noble races there lurks unmistakably the beast of prey, the _blond beast_, lustfully roving in search of booty and victory.
The symbol of a beast considered merely _as a beast_, could not, in the nature of the case, signify anything more than a temporal kingdom or political empire.
At the heart of the beast is a 686cc fuel-injected engine that makes monstrous torque from idle, through the mid-range, and right up to the 9,000 rpm redline.
It does not call up the beast, and if it did it would not matter much, as a rule; the beast is a harmless and rather amiable creature, as anybody can see by watching cattle.
And _a brute beast _ -- whose fellow I had contemptuously destroyed -- _a brute beast_ to work out for _me_ -- for me a man, fashioned in the image of the High God -- so much of insufferable wo!