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."

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