A burden is a heavy weight that is difficult to carry. Metaphorically it refers to anything difficult or troubling.

Burden may also refer to:

• Burden, Kansas, United States
• Burden, Luxembourg
• Burden of proof
• Burden, in cost accounting, an old term for overhead (business) (O/H) costs
• Burden (music), a term in music for the chorus or refrain, or the drone of an instrument
• "Burden in My Hand", a single by Soundgarden

As a surname

• Henry Burden, 19th century industrialist
• Michael Burden, dean of New College, Oxford

See also

• Onus