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Stern   /stərn/   Listen
Stern

adjective
(compar. sterner; superl. sternest)
1.
Of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect.  Synonym: austere.  "A stern face"
2.
Not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty.  Synonyms: grim, inexorable, relentless, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting.  "Grim necessity" , "Russia's final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty" , "Relentless persecution" , "The stern demands of parenthood"
3.
Severe and unremitting in making demands.  Synonyms: exacting, strict.  "A stern disciplinarian" , "Strict standards"
4.
Severely simple.  Synonyms: austere, severe, stark.
noun
1.
The rear part of a ship.  Synonyms: after part, poop, quarter, tail.
2.
United States concert violinist (born in Russia in 1920).  Synonym: Isaac Stern.
3.
The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on.  Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush.  "Are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"



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"Stern" Quotes from Famous Books



... dignified and logical garment. It clothed with equal charity a man's stomach and his stern. Generous of its skirts, which went far to conceal wrinkled trousers, it could be worn with a light tie at a formal dinner or with a dark tie at a studio tea, and was equally appropriate at a funeral or a wedding. For all ...
— A Daughter of the Middle Border • Hamlin Garland
... child: I call myself a boy,' Says my king, with accent stern yet mild, Now nine years have brought him change ...
— A Century of Roundels • Algernon Charles Swinburne
... pestilence, as well as by the weapons of the defenders of Acre. The hearts of all men were quickly sinking. The Turkish fleet was at hand to reinforce Djezzar; and upon the utter failure of the attack of the 21st of May, Napoleon yielded to stern necessity, and ...
— The History of Napoleon Buonaparte • John Gibson Lockhart
... political and religious bias of either school. The Realists were chiefly supported by the Dominicans, the Nominalists by the Franciscans; and there is always a more gentle expression beaming in the eyes of the followers of the seraphic Doctor, particularly if contrasted with the stern frown of the Dominican. Ockam himself was a Franciscan, and those who thought with him were called doctores renovatores and sophistae. Suddenly, however, the tables were turned. At Oxford, the Realists, in following out their principles in a more independent ...
— Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. • F. Max Mueller
... Warren sailed from Manila bound for San Francisco. The first day out from Manila, late in the evening when supper was eaten, I ate very heartily, and went on duty in the stern of the transport. The sea was rough, and gave the transport a rolling motion. Shortly after going on duty my head commenced swimming, and I was ill. A soldier told me that I was sea-sick. I had never been sea-sick and knew nothing about how a person felt. At last I vomited freely, ...
— A Soldier in the Philippines • Needom N. Freeman


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