English to English
adjective
- Having a certain hardness or severity of nature, manner, or aspect; hard; severe; rigid; rigorous; austere; fixed; unchanging; unrelenting; hence, serious; resolute; harsh; as, a sternresolve; a stern necessity; a stern heart; a stern gaze; a stern decree.
source: Webster 1913
- Being in the stern, or being astern; as, the stern davits.
source: Webster 1913
noun
- the rear part of a ship
source: WordNet 3.0
- United States concert violinist (born in Russia in 1920)
source: WordNet 3.0
- 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?.
source: WordNet 3.0
- The black tern.
source: Webster 1913
- The helm or tiller of a vessel or boat; also, the rudder.
source: Webster 1913
adjective satellite
- of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect
An austere expression.
A stern face.
source: WordNet 3.0
- 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.
source: WordNet 3.0
- severe and unremitting in making demands
An exacting instructor.
A stern disciplinarian.
Strict standards.
source: WordNet 3.0
- severely simple
A stark interior.
source: WordNet 3.0
English to Tagalog
adj
- [stérn] Masungít; mahigpít
source: Diccionario Ingles-Español-Tagalog
noun
- [stérn] Hulihán ng sasakyan
source: Diccionario Ingles-Español-Tagalog
