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Definition of 'stern'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (adj.) stern
firm, strict, or uncompromising:
stern discipline.

2.  stern
hard, harsh, or severe.

3.  stern
rigorous or austere; of an unpleasantly serious character:
stern times.

4.  stern
grim or forbidding in aspect:
a stern face.

5. (n.) stern
the after part of a vessel

6.  stern
the back or rear of anything.

7. (n.) Stern
Isaac, born 1920, U.S. violinist, born in Russia.

Definition of 'stern'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) stern, after part, quarter, poop, tail
the rear part of a ship

2. (noun) Stern, Isaac Stern
United States concert violinist (born in Russia in 1920)

3. (adj) buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass
the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
"he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"

4. (adj) austere, stern
of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect
"an austere expression"; "a stern face"

5. (adj) grim, inexorable, relentless, stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting
not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty
"grim determination"; "grim necessity"; "Russia's final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty"; "relentless persecution"; "the stern demands of parenthood"

6. (adj) stern, strict, exacting
severe and unremitting in making demands
"an exacting instructor"; "a stern disciplinarian"; "strict standards"

7. (adj) austere, severe, stark, stern
severely simple
"a stark interior"

Definition of 'stern'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (adjective) stern
strict or serious
a stern teacher; a stern expression

Definition of 'stern'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) stern
being in the stern, or being astern; as, the stern davits

2. (noun) stern
the black tern

3. stern
having a certain hardness or severity of nature, manner, or aspect; hard; severe; rigid; rigorous; austere; fixed; unchanging; unrelenting; hence, serious; resolute; harsh; as, a sternresolve; a stern necessity; a stern heart; a stern gaze; a stern decree

4. (verb) stern
the helm or tiller of a vessel or boat; also, the rudder

5. (verb) stern
the after or rear end of a ship or other vessel, or of a boat; the part opposite to the stem, or prow

6. (verb) stern
fig.: The post of management or direction

7. (verb) stern
the hinder part of anything

8. (verb) stern
the tail of an animal; -- now used only of the tail of a dog

Translation of 'stern'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: harsh, severe or strict The teacher looked rather stern; stern discipline.
Afrikaans: streng	Arabic: صارِم، عابِس، قاسٍ	Bulgarian: строг
Brazilian: severo	Czech: přísný	German: streng
Danish: streng	Greek: αυστηρός, σκληρός	Estonian: range
Farsi: سخت گير	Finnish: ankara	French: sévère
Hebrew: קַפדָן	Hindi: कड़ा, कठोर, सख्त	Croatian: krut, strog
Hungarian: zord	Indonesian: keras	Icelandic: strangur
Italian: severo	Japanese: 厳しい	Korean: 엄한, 단호한
Lithuanian: griežtas, rūstus	Latvian: stingrs; bargs	Malay: tegas
Dutch: streng	Norwegian: streng, hard	Polish: srogi
Persian: سخت گير	Pashto: سخت، ټينګ: كلك، ثابت، كرا	Portuguese: severo
Romanian: sever	Russian: суровый; строгий	Slovak: prísny
Slovenian: strog	Serbian: strog	Swedish: sträng, barsk
Thai: ที่เข้มงวด	Turkish: sert	Taiwanese: 嚴厲的，苛刻的
Ukrainian: суворий, строгий	Urdu: شدید یا سخت	Vietnamese: nghiêm nghị, nghiêm khắc
Chinese: 严厉的，苛刻的
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