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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Examples of "stern" in Sentences
- The teacher is stern and strict.
- The mood in the church is stern.
- He was a stern persecutor of heretics.
- Her expression in the picture is stern.
- Bahamut is very stern and disapproving of evil.
- Barne was a stern moralist, and was knighted in 1553.
- The timorous sailor has no dependence on a painted stern.
- By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore.
- They are either overhanging the stern or just aft of the funnel.
- Storm of mutinous anger gathers round the Captain stern and true,
- I think howard stern is a pervert and i never give him the time of day.
- Escape or lassitude was not an option and such was met with stern punishment.
- CBS trying to sue stern is sour grapes and distracting from their FM disaster.
- She liked him for a certain stern soberness that was his, and for his saving grace of humor.
- Before she could get any more information from him, Marco walked over to them, his expression stern.
- “There are few things I would deny you, Daughter, without good reason,” Balm answered, her expression stern.
- President Obama's promising what he calls a stern response if North Korea launches a missile, as it now threatens.
- Lavishness lives on among the audience members, whose gaudy fashion sense the evening I attended was in stern defiance of Mr. Zapatero's plan de austeridad.
- QUESTION: The Associated Press reports that in reaction to what they termed your stern rebuke of Jerry Thacker, a group called Human Rights Campaign said that while this was a positive development, the Bush administration's, quote, "Obsessive focus on abstinence as the solitary mechanism to prevent the transmission of HIV is not based on sound science."