Associations to the word «Sterner»
Noun
- Craft
- Catapult
- Compartment
- Sirius
- Crane
- Howard
- Stern
- Isaac
- Disapproval
- Sloan
- Violinist
- Composure
- Anti
- Puritan
- Round
- Letterman
- Curt
- Mba
- Quiver
- Gaze
- Chute
- Newsweek
- Lange
- Stuff
- Brow
- Toni
- Necessity
- Jock
- Ballast
- Displeasure
- Thrower
- Carole
- Softness
- Bradley
- Tenderness
- Severity
- Retribution
- Chase
- Discipline
- Christy
- Fritz
- Gun
- Nba
- Sigmund
- Frigate
- Repression
- Ephraim
- Whitehead
- Hulk
- Expression
- Moshe
- Beatrice
- Censure
- Plunging
- Walther
- Bosom
- Selma
- Glance
- Reproach
- Solemnity
- Tender
- Gentle
- Repose
- Cutter
- Fcc
- Ton
- Kingsley
Adjective
Wiktionary
STERN, adjective. Having a hardness and severity of nature or manner.
STERN, adjective. Grim and forbidding in appearance.
STERN, noun. (nautical) The rear part or after end of a ship or vessel.
STERN, noun. (figurative) The post of management or direction.
STERN, noun. The hinder part of anything.
STERN, noun. The tail of an animal; now used only of the tail of a dog.
STERN, noun. A bird, the black tern.
STERN CHASER, noun. A gun or cannon mounted on the stern of a ship for firing at a pursuing vessel.
STERN CHASERS, noun. Plural of stern chaser
Dictionary definition
STERN, noun. The rear part of a ship.
STERN, noun. United States concert violinist (born in Russia in 1920).
STERN, noun. 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?".
STERN, adjective. Of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect; "an austere expression"; "a stern face".
STERN, adjective. 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, adjective. Severe and unremitting in making demands; "an exacting instructor"; "a stern disciplinarian"; "strict standards".
STERN, adjective. Severely simple; "a stark interior".
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