Definition of stern

"stern" in the noun sense

1. stern, after part, quarter, poop, tail

the rear part of a ship

2. Stern, Isaac Stern

United States concert violinist (born in Russia in 1920)

3. 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

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" in the adjective sense

1. austere, stern

of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor forbidding in aspect

"an austere expression"

"a stern face"

2. grim, inexorable, relentless, stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting

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"

3. stern, strict, exacting

severe and unremitting in making demands

"an exacting instructor"

"a stern disciplinarian"

"strict standards"

4. austere, severe, stark, stern

severely simple

"a stark interior"

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Quotations for stern

Battle's magnificently stern array. [ Byron ]

Stern daughter of the voice of God! [ Wordsworth ]

And the stern joy which warriors feel
In foemen worthy of their steel. [ Scott ]

Stern winter loves a dirge-like sound. [ Wordsworth ]

Stern men with empires in their brains. [ Lowell ]

Even thou who mourn'st the daisy's fate,
That fate is thine - no distant date;
Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives elate
Full on thy bloom,
Till crush'd beneath the farrow's weight
Shall be thy doom. [ Burns ]

They did not know how hate can burn
In hearts once changed from soft to stern;
Nor all the false and fatal zeal
The convert of revenge can feel. [ Byron ]

'Tis a stern and a startling thing to think
How often mortality stands on the brink
Of its grave without any misgiving;
And yet in this slippery world of strife,
In the stir of human bustle so rife.
There are daily sounds to tell us that Life
Is dying, and Death is living! [ Hood ]

They talk of short-lived pleasures - be it so -
Pain dies as quickly; stern, hard-featured pain
Expires, and lets her weary prisoner go.
The fiercest agonies have shortest reign. [ Bryant ]

He who is only just is stern; he who is only wise lives in gloom. [ Voltaire ]

A stern discipline pervades all Nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind. [ Spenser ]

Though men can cover crimes with bold, stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books. [ William Shakespeare ]

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed. [ Coleridge ]

Experience to most men is like the stern-lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed. [ Coleridge ]

Stern duties need not speak sternly. He who stood firm before the thunder worshipped the still small voice. [ Sidney Dobell ]

Stern is the on-look of necessity. Not without a shudder may the hand of man grasp the mysterious urn of destiny. [ Schiller ]

Stern fate and time will have their victims; and the best die first, leaving the bad still strong, though past their prime. [ Ebenezer Elliott ]

The greater portion of our lives is thrown away in fiction; it is only in maturer years that we awake to the stern realities of life. [ James Ellis ]

Gentle feelings produce profoundly beneficial effects upon stern natures. It is the spring rain which melts the ice-covering of the earth, and causes it to open to the beams of heaven. [ Fredrika Bremer ]

At the age when the faculties droop, when stern experience has destroyed all sweet illusions, man may seek solitude; but, at twenty, the affections which he is compelled to repress are a tomb in which he buries himself alive. [ E. de Girardin ]

Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on the earth in the night season, and melt away with the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world. [ Dickens ]

The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep silence rules the uncounselled sister of eternal fate. Whatever she lays upon thee, endure; perform whatever she commands. [ Goethe ]

No good or lovely thing exists in this world without its correspondent darkness; and the universe presents itself continually to mankind under the stern aspect of warning, or of choice, the good and the evil set on the right hand and the left. [ John Ruskin ]

We speak of persons as jovial, as being born under the planet Jupiter or Jove, which was the joyfullest star and the happiest augury of all. A gloomy person was said to be saturnine, as being born under the planet Saturn, who was considered to make those who owned his influence, and were born when he was in the ascendant, grave and stern as himself. [ Trench ]

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Words containing the sequence stern

Word Growth involving stern

Shorter words in stern

tern

Longer words containing stern

astern eastern easterner easterners northeasterners

astern eastern easterner easterners southeasterners

astern eastern easterner northeasterner northeasterners

astern eastern easterner southeasterner southeasterners

astern eastern easternmost northeasternmost

astern eastern easternmost southeasternmost

astern eastern northeastern northeasterner northeasterners

astern eastern northeastern northeasternmost

astern eastern southeastern southeasterner southeasterners

astern eastern southeastern southeasternmost

astern metasternum

astern suprasternal

cistern cisternlike

cistern cisterns

lacklusterness

postern posterns

schistosternia

sinisterness

sterna consternation

sterna sternal costosternal

sterna sternal dorsosternal dorsosternally

sterna sternal mediosternal

sterna sternal mesosternal

sterna sternal omosternal omosternally

sterna sternal prosternal

sterna sternal retrosternal

sterna sternal suprasternal

sterna sternal vertebrosternal

sterna sternal xiphisternal xiphisternally

sterna xiphisterna xiphisternal xiphisternally

sternboard sternboards

sterned

sterner easterner easterners northeasterners

sterner easterner easterners southeasterners

sterner easterner northeasterner northeasterners

sterner easterner southeasterner southeasterners

sterner westerner midwesterner midwesterners

sterner westerner northwesterner northwesterners

sterner westerner southwesterner southwesterners

sterner westerner westerners midwesterners

sterner westerner westerners northwesterners

sterner westerner westerners southwesterners

sternest

sternforemost

sternly

sternmost easternmost northeasternmost

sternmost easternmost southeasternmost

sternmost westernmost northwesternmost

sternmost westernmost southwesternmost

sternness

sternoclavicular

sternocleidomastoid sternocleidomastoids

sternocleidooccipitomastoid

sternomancy

sternomastoid sternomastoids

sternoscapular

sternovertebral

sterns cisterns

sterns posterns

sterns westerns

sternum mesosternum

sternum metasternum

sternum omosternum omosternums

sternum prosternum

sternum sternums omosternums

sternum sternums xiphisternums

sternum xiphisternum xiphisternums

sternutaries

sternutary

sternutate sternutated

sternutate sternutates

sternutating

sternutation sternutations

sternutative sternutatives

sternutator sternutatories

sternutator sternutators

sternutator sternutatory nonsternutatory

sternward sternwards

sternway sternways

sternwheel sternwheeler sternwheelers

sternwheel sternwheels

sternwork sternworks

western midwestern midwesterner midwesterners

western northwestern northwesterner northwesterners

western northwestern northwesternmost

western southwestern southwesterner southwesterners

western southwestern southwesternmost

western westerner midwesterner midwesterners

western westerner northwesterner northwesterners

western westerner southwesterner southwesterners

western westerner westerners midwesterners

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western westernisation

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western westernising

western westernization

western westernize westernized

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western westerns

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