stern
IPA: stˈɝn
noun
- (nautical) The rear part or after end of a ship or vessel.
- (figurative) The post of management or direction.
- The hinder part of anything.
- The tail of an animal; now used only of the tail of a dog.
- A bird, the black tern.
- A surname.
verb
- (obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To steer, to direct the course of (a ship).
- (transitive, intransitive, nautical) To propel or move backward or stern-first in the water.
adjective
- Having a hardness and severity of nature or manner.
- Grim and forbidding in appearance.
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