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List of meaning for stern

harsh, hard or severe in character or manner

stern, after part, quarter, poop, tail(noun)

the rear part of a ship

Stern, Isaac Stern(noun)

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, ass(adj)

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, stern(adj)

of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect

"an austere expression"; "a stern face"

grim, inexorable, relentless, stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting(adj)

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, exacting(adj)

severe and unremitting in making demands

"an exacting instructor"; "a stern disciplinarian"; "strict standards"

austere, severe, stark, stern(adj)

severely simple

"a stark interior"

given to exacting standards of discipline and self-restraint

the army post's stern commander always had the utmost respect of those who served under him

harsh and threatening in manner or appearance

a stern receptionist took our names without even looking up

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