How to pronounce "stern"

• "Stern" pronounced in German.

• "stern" pronounced in German.

• "stern" pronounced in English.

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• "Stern" pronounced in Finnish.

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• "Stern" pronounced in Hungarian.

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Meanings and definitions of "stern"

Noun

the rear part of a ship

Synonyms:

• stern
• after part
• quarter
• poop
• tail

Noun

United States concert violinist (born in Russia in 1920)

Synonyms:

• Stern
• Isaac 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?"

Synonyms:

• 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

Adjective

of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect; "an austere expression"; "a stern face"

Synonyms:

• austere
• 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"

Synonyms:

• grim
• inexorable
• relentless
• stern
• unappeasable
• unforgiving
• unrelenting

Adjective

severe and unremitting in making demands; "an exacting instructor"; "a stern disciplinarian"; "strict standards"

Synonyms:

• stern
• strict
• exacting

Adjective

severely simple; "a stark interior"

Synonyms:

• austere
• severe
• stark
• stern