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Stern

adjective
(compar. sterner; superl. sternest)
1.
Of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect.  Synonym: austere.  "A stern face"
2.
Not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty.  Synonyms: grim, inexorable, relentless, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting.  "Grim necessity" , "Russia's final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty" , "Relentless persecution" , "The stern demands of parenthood"
3.
Severe and unremitting in making demands.  Synonyms: exacting, strict.  "A stern disciplinarian" , "Strict standards"
4.
Severely simple.  Synonyms: austere, severe, stark.
noun
1.
The rear part of a ship.  Synonyms: after part, poop, quarter, tail.
2.
United States concert violinist (born in Russia in 1920).  Synonym: Isaac Stern.
3.
The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on.  Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush.  "Are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"



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"Stern" Quotes from Famous Books



... furled, and they cast anchor about a hundred fathoms from the little harbor. The gig was already lowered, and in it were four oarsmen and a coxswain. The traveller descended, and instead of sitting down at the stern of the boat, which had been decorated with a blue carpet for his accommodation, stood up with his arms crossed. The rowers waited, their oars half lifted out of the water, like birds drying ...
— The Count of Monte Cristo • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

... into the wind and backed her jib and staysail the whaleboat was swung out. Into it leaped six breech-clouted Santa Cruz boys, each armed with a rifle. Denby, carrying the lanterns, dropped into the stern-sheets. Grief, following, paused on ...
— A Son Of The Sun • Jack London

... a glance. The plain little face was lit up by animation, and he smiled. Then he turned to the men. 'Very good, lads; you hear what the young lady says. I promised her her way, and she shall have it.' Here his face grew stern. 'But it's to her I've given way, not to my men, remember that. What Mark Clay does is done, and won't be undone; and there's no parleying between master and man in Clay's Mills; so the next time the men want to come up to see me, tell ...
— Sarah's School Friend • May Baldwin

... unmoved from her stern purpose, had, after her father's departure, let bring poisonous herbs and roots and distilled and reduced them in water, so she might have it at hand, an that she feared should come to pass. The serving-man coming to her with the prince's present and message, she took the cup with a steadfast countenance ...
— The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio • Giovanni Boccaccio

... among the visitors at the watering-place of Gustafsberg, which lay near to Uddevalla, a Norwegian Colonel and his lady. He was lame from a paralytic stroke, and had lost the use of his speech and of his hands. He was a large man, of a fierce, stern exterior; and although he seemed to endure nobody near him but his wife, and perpetually demanded her care, still it was evidently not out of love. And although his wife devoted herself unweariedly and self-denyingly to his service, ...
— Strife and Peace • Fredrika Bremer


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