Usually means: Behind or toward the back.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. astern: Merriam-Webster
  2. astern: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. astern: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. astern: Collins English Dictionary
  5. astern: Vocabulary.com
  6. Astern, astern: Wordnik
  7. astern: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. astern: Wiktionary
  9. astern: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. astern: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. astern: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. astern: Dictionary.com
  13. Astern: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Astern: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. astern: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. astern: Rhymezone
  17. Astern: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. astern: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. astern: FreeDictionary.org
  20. astern: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. astern: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. astern: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. Astern: Dictionary.com
  24. astern: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  25. astern: Merriam-Webster

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. astern: Encyclopedia

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Canoe Terminology (No longer online)

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. ASTERN: Glossary of Nautical Terms
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (astern)

▸ adverb:  Behind (a vessel); in the rear.
▸ adverb:  In the direction of the stern; backward (motion); to the rear.
▸ adverb:  (obsolete or rare) At or toward the rear of a vessel.
▸ adjective:  Behind a vessel; having a bearing of 180 degrees from ahead.

Similar:
abaft, aft, behind, rearwards, arear, backward, aftward, rearwardly, behine, posteriorly, more...

Opposite:
forward, ahead, fore

Types:
abaft, aft, posterior, aftmost, poop, sternmost, more...

Phrases:
dead astern, drop astern, to bake astern, to be astern of the reckoning, to drop astern, more...

Adjectives:
dead, full, next, clear, second, fear, slow, little, high, close, right

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Similar:
abaft, aft, behind, rearwards, arear, backward, aftward, rearwardly, behine, posteriorly, more...

Opposite:
forward, ahead, fore

Types:
abaft, aft, posterior, aftmost, poop, sternmost, more...

Phrases:
dead astern, drop astern, to bake astern, to be astern of the reckoning, to drop astern, to fall astern, to go astern, Astern propulsion, more...

Adjectives:
dead, full, next, clear, second, fear, slow, little, high, close, right

Colors:
    midnight blue,     indigo,     royal blue,     sapphire,     azure, more...



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