Definitions for sterner
stern·er

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Sternernoun

   a director

2. Etymology: [See 3d Stern.]

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. STERNER

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Sterner is ranked #6334 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Sterner surname appeared 5,385 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 2 would have the surname Sterner.
   
   95.1% or 5,123 total occurrences were White.
   2.1% or 117 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1% or 56 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   0.5% or 31 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
   0.5% or 30 total occurrences were Asian.
   0.5% or 28 total occurrences were Black.

How to pronounce sterner?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say sterner in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of sterner in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of sterner in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of sterner in a Sentence

1. William Shakespeare:

   He was my friend, faithful, and just to me, but Brutus says, he was ambitious, and Brutus is an honorable man. He hath brought many captives home to Rome, whose ransoms did the general coffers fill. Did this in Caesar seem ambitious. When the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept. Ambition should me made of sterner stuff, yet Brutus says, he was ambitious and Brutus is an honorable man.

2. David Axelrod:

   How do you capture the data and build relationships with all the people suddenly eager to help ? How do you quickly build an organization equipped to utilize that data and those relationships and develop a strategy, particularly in the must-win early states, and how do you prepare for the sterner tests that come for a' hot' candidate, as media and opponents begin to poke and prod with greater intensity to see if you are up to the job.

3. George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron:

   There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

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References

1. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sterner
2. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html