What does Stern mean?
Definitions for Stern
stɜrnstern
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Princeton's WordNet
stern, after part, quarter, poop, tailnoun
the rear part of a ship
Stern, Isaac Sternnoun
United States concert violinist (born in Russia in 1920)
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, assadjective
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?"
austere, sternadjective
of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect
"an austere expression"; "a stern face"
grim, inexorable, relentless, stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelentingadjective
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"
stern, strict, exactingadjective
severe and unremitting in making demands
"an exacting instructor"; "a stern disciplinarian"; "strict standards"
austere, severe, stark, sternadjective
severely simple
"a stark interior"
Wiktionary
sternnoun
The rear part or after end of a ship or vessel.
Etymology: From stern, sterne, sturne, from styrne, from sturnijaz, from ster-. Cognate with stern, stornen, stuurs, stursk.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
STERNadjective
Etymology: styrn , Saxon.
Why look you still so stern and tragical. William Shakespeare, H. VI.
I would outstare the sternest eyes that look,
Outbrave the heart most daring on the earth,
Pluck the young sucking cubs from the she-bear,
Yea, mock the lion when he roars for prey,
To win thee, lady. William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice.It shall not be amiss here to present the stern but lively countenance of this so famous a man. Richard Knolles, Hist. of the Turks.
Gods and men
Fear’d her stern frown, and she was queen o’ th’ woods. John Milton.My sometime general,
I’ve seen thee stern, and thou hast oft beheld
Heart-hard’ning spectacles. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.Women are soft, mild, pitiful, and flexible;
Thou stern, obdurate, flinty, rough, remorseless. William Shakespeare.The common executioner,
Whose heart th’ accustom’d sight of death makes hard,
Falls not the ax upon the humbled neck,
But first begs pardon: will you sterner be
Than he that deals and lives by bloody drops? William Shakespeare.Did this in Cæsar seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cry’d, Cæsar hath wept;
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. William Shakespeare, Jul. Cæs.Then shall the war, and stern debate and strife
Immortal, be the bus’ness of my life;
And in thy fane the dusty spoils among,
High on the burnish’d roof, my banner shall be hung. Dryd.How stern as tutors, and as uncles hard,
We lash the pupil and defraud the ward. John Dryden, Pers.If wolves had at thy gate howl’d that stern time,
Thou shouldst have said, Go, porter, turn the key,
All cruels else subscrib’d. William Shakespeare, King Lear.Sternnoun
Etymology: steor , Saxon. Of the same original with steer.
Let a barbarous Indian, who had never seen a ship, view the separate and disjointed parts, as the prow and stern, the ribs, masts, ropes, and shrouds, he would form but a very lame idea of it. Isaac Watts, Improvement of the Mind.
They turn their heads to sea, their sterns to land. Dryd.
The king from Eltam I intend to send,
And sit at chiefest stern of publick weal. William Shakespeare, H. VI.She all at once her beastly body raised,
With doubled forces high above the ground,
Though wrapping up her wreathed stern around. Fa. Queen.
ChatGPT
stern
The stern is the back or aft-most part of a ship or boat. It is technically defined as the area built up over the sternpost, extending upwards from the counter rail to the taffrail. It could also refer to showing serious or severe nature or demeanor.
Webster Dictionary
Sternnoun
the black tern
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
Sternverb
the helm or tiller of a vessel or boat; also, the rudder
Sternverb
the after or rear end of a ship or other vessel, or of a boat; the part opposite to the stem, or prow
Sternverb
fig.: The post of management or direction
Sternverb
the hinder part of anything
Sternverb
the tail of an animal; -- now used only of the tail of a dog
Sternadjective
being in the stern, or being astern; as, the stern davits
Etymology: [Icel. stjrn a steering, or a doubtful AS. stern. 166. See Steer, v. t.]
Wikidata
Stern
The stern is the rear or aft-most part of a ship or boat, technically defined as the area built up over the sternpost, extending upwards from the counter rail to the taffrail. The stern lies opposite of the bow, the foremost part of a ship. Originally, the term only referred to the aft port section of the ship, but eventually came to refer to the entire back of a vessel. The stern end of a ship is indicated with a white navigation light at night. Sterns on European and American wooden sailing ships began with two principal forms: the square or transom stern and the elliptical, fantail, or merchant stern, and were developed in that order. The hull sections of a sailing ship located before the stern are composed of a series of U-shaped rib-like frames set in a sloped or "cant" arrangement, with the last frame before the stern being called the fashion timber or fashion piece, so called for "fashioning" the after part of the ship. This frame is designed to support the various beams that make up the stern. In 1817 the British naval architect Sir Robert Seppings first introduced the concept of the round or circular stern. The square stern had been an easy target for enemy cannon, and could not support the weight of heavy stern chase guns. But Seppings' design left the rudder head exposed, and was regarded by many as simply ugly—no American warships were designed with such sterns, and the round stern was quickly superseded by the elliptical stern. The United States began building the first elliptical stern warship in 1820, a decade before the British. The USS Brandywine became the first sailing ship to sport such a stern. Though a great improvement over the transom stern in terms of its vulnerability to attack when under fire, elliptical sterns still had obvious weaknesses which the next major stern development—the iron-hulled cruiser stern—addressed far better and with much different materials.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Stern
stėrn, adj. severe of countenance, manner, or feeling: austere: harsh: unrelenting: steadfast.—adv. Stern′ly.—n. Stern′ness. [A.S. styrne.]
Stern
stėrn, n. the hind-part of a vessel: the rump or tail of an animal.—v.t. to back a boat, to row backward.—ns. Stern′age (Shak.), the steerage or stern of a ship; Stern′board, backward motion of a ship: loss of way in tacking; Stern′-chase, a chase in which one ship follows directly in the wake of another; Stern′-chās′er, a cannon in the stern of a ship.—adj. Sterned, having a stern of a specified kind.—ns. Stern′-fast, a rope or chain for making fast a ship's stern to a wharf, &c.; Stern′-frame, the sternpost, transoms, and fashion-pieces of a ship's stern.—adj. Stern′most, farthest astern.—ns. Stern′port, a port or opening in the stern of a ship; Stern′post, the aftermost timber of a ship which supports the rudder; Stern′sheets, the part of a boat between the stern and the rowers; Stern′son, the hinder extremity of a ship's keelson, to which the sternpost is bolted; Stern′way, the backward motion of a vessel; Stern′-wheel′er (U.S.), a small vessel with one large paddle-wheel at the stern. [Ice. stjórn, a steering.]
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
stern
The after-part of a ship, ending in the taffarel above and the counters below.--By the stern. The condition of a vessel which draws more water abaft than forward.
Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers
Stern
(J)., Rabbiner, German writer, born of Jewish parents, Liederstetten (Wurtemburg), his father being Rabbi of the town. In ’58 he went to the Talmud High School, Presburg and studied the Kabbalah, which he intended to translate into German. To do this he studied Spinoza, whose philosophy converted him. In ’63 he graduated at Stuttgart. He founded a society, to which he gave discourses collected in his first book, Gottesflamme, ’72. His Old and New Faith Among the Jews, ’78, was much attacked by the orthodox Jews. In Women in the Talmud, ’79, he pleaded for mixed marriages. He has also written Jesus as a Jewish Reformer, The Egyptian Religion and Positivism, and Is the Pentateuch by Moses? In ’81 he went to live at Stuttgart, where he has translated Spinoza’s Ethics, and is engaged on a history of Spinozism.
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
STERN
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Stern is ranked #1418 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Stern surname appeared 25,074 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 9 would have the surname Stern.
93.6% or 23,492 total occurrences were White.
2.2% or 552 total occurrences were Black.
2.1% or 529 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
1.1% or 291 total occurrences were of two or more races.
0.6% or 168 total occurrences were Asian.
0.1% or 45 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
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Anagrams for Stern »
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Stern in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Stern in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of Stern in a Sentence
Ms. Inada is an ultra-conservative politician and this will be taken as preparation for achieving constitutional revision and adopting a stern stance toward China.
The record shows that I’m right, when I did an interview with Howard Stern, very lightly, first time anyone’s asked me that, I said, very lightly, ‘I don’t know, maybe, who knows?’ essentially. I then did an interview with Neil Cavuto. We talked about the economy is more important [than going to war].
Donald Trump is a combination of Ross Perot and Howard Stern. And a Howard Stern doesn't succumb to controversy ; he thrives in it.
It was like I came out of a coma and realized this was not normal and this is not how you do business, i know other people who've heard the story say 'How did a guy with a PhD fall victim?' I was the perfect victim. I've never been audited, never paid a traffic ticket. I don't know how to pay fines. How do I know they aren't stern and serious about everything?
The government has set a vision to enable girls to continue with their studies after delivery while taking stern measures against those who will be implicated in the criminal incidence.
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- صارِم, مُتَشَدّدArabic
- кърма, негостоприемен, неприветлив, мрачен, суров, строг, твърд, недружелюбенBulgarian
- sever, popaCatalan, Valencian
- záďCzech
- starnWelsh
- agterende, agterstævnDanish
- Heck, streng, Schiffshinterteil, HinterschiffGerman
- βλοσυρός, πρύμνη, αυστηρόςGreek
- severaEsperanto
- severo, popaSpanish
- ahterEstonian
- ankara, perä, ahteriFinnish
- poupeFrench
- deireadhIrish
- gruamachScottish Gaelic
- popaGalician
- szigorú, tat, hajótat, zord, ridegHungarian
- skuturIcelandic
- austero, arcigno, duro, inflessibile, poppa, rigido, severoItalian
- ירכתי ספינהHebrew
- 荘厳, 船尾, 厳格Japanese
- სასტიკიGeorgian
- 선미Korean
- puppis, firmatusLatin
- makikiMāori
- achterstevenDutch
- akter, akterendeNorwegian
- rufaPolish
- austero, rígido, severo, popaPortuguese
- sever, durRomanian
- строгий, мрачный, суровый, кормаRussian
- jak, grubost, strogost, čvrst, snažan, čeličan, surovostSerbo-Croatian
- neúprosný, prísny, korma, neprívetivý, tvrdýSlovak
- barsk, hård, rigorös, strikt, sträng, akterSwedish
- దృ ern మైనTelugu
- sert, haşin, katıTurkish
- nghiêm khắcVietnamese
- pödanaf, pödastevVolapük
- הינטערבאָרטYiddish
- 凛凛Chinese
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