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Synonyms for beasts

Grammar : Noun
Spell : beest
Phonetic Transcription : bist

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Définition of beasts

Origin :
  • c.1200, from Old French beste "animal, wild beast," figuratively "fool, idiot" (11c., Modern French bête), from Vulgar Latin *besta, from Latin bestia "beast, wild animal," of unknown origin. Used to translate Latin animal. Replaced Old English deor (see deer) as the generic word for "wild creature," only to be ousted 16c. by animal. Of persons felt to be animal-like in various senses from early 13c. Of the figure in the Christian apocalypse story from late 14c.
  • noun large wild animal; brute
Example sentences :
  • I had seen everything in it—birds and beasts—and had heard all its strange noises.
  • Extract from : « Green Mansions » by W. H. Hudson
  • But of all the beasts that begged to do him service, Claus liked the reindeer best.
  • Extract from : « A Little Book of Profitable Tales » by Eugene Field
  • Meanwhile, they paid him for the clothes, but not for the beasts.
  • Extract from : « Fair Margaret » by H. Rider Haggard
  • Who comes hither, among the beasts and dangers of the wilderness?
  • Extract from : « The Last of the Mohicans » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • You have no soul, and the soul is all that raises man above the beasts.
  • Extract from : « The Monster Men » by Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • "Even the beasts will have none of us," cried Number Ten angrily.
  • Extract from : « The Monster Men » by Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Then the beasts go into their dens, and they remain in their places.
  • Extract from : « The Works of Whittier, Volume V (of VII) » by John Greenleaf Whittier
  • He was, in fact, a slayer of beasts—a foreman at the slaughter-house.
  • Extract from : « The Slave Of The Lamp » by Henry Seton Merriman
  • From thence onward it was as if our feet and the feet of our beasts had wings.
  • Extract from : « Freeland » by Theodor Hertzka
  • Nor are they less fools who admire these beasts as if they were gods.
  • Extract from : « The Praise of Folly » by Desiderius Erasmus

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