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Meaning of stern
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
stern
adj 1: of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in
aspect; "an austere expression"; "a stern face" [syn:
{austere}, {stern}]
2: 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" [syn: {grim},
{inexorable}, {relentless}, {stern}, {unappeasable},
{unforgiving}, {unrelenting}]
3: severe and unremitting in making demands; "an exacting
instructor"; "a stern disciplinarian"; "strict standards"
[syn: {stern}, {strict}, {exacting}]
4: severely simple; "a stark interior" [syn: {austere},
{severe}, {stark}, {stern}]
n 1: the rear part of a ship [syn: {stern}, {after part},
{quarter}, {poop}, {tail}]
2: United States concert violinist (born in Russia in 1920)
[syn: {Stern}, {Isaac Stern}]
3: 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?" [syn: {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}]
WordNet ® Princeton University. http://wordnet.princeton.edu
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