STERN meaning: Strict, unyielding demeanor or expression

We found 51 dictionaries that define the word stern:

General (31 matching dictionaries)

stern: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Stern, stern: Merriam-Webster
stern, stern: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
stern, stern: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
stern: Collins English Dictionary
Stern, stern: Vocabulary.com
Stern, stern: Wordnik
stern: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Stern: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
Stern, stern: Wiktionary
stern: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
stern: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
stern: Infoplease Dictionary
stern, stern-: Dictionary.com
stern (adj.), stern (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
stern: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Stern (Zeitschrift), Stern (disambiguation), Stern (game company), Stern (gaming company), Stern (magazine), Stern (surname), Stern: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Stern: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
stern: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
stern: Rhymezone
Stern(zeichen), Stern (m), stern: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
stern: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
stern, stern-: MyWord.info
Stern: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
stern: FreeDictionary.org
stern: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
stern: Mnemonic Dictionary
Stern: TheFreeDictionary.com
stern: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)

stern-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
Stern: Encyclopedia of Organ Stops

Business (3 matching dictionaries)

Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary (No longer online)
stern: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

stern: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)

online medical dictionary (No longer online)
stern(o)-: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

stern: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)

Stern: Underwater Archaeology Glossary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

stern: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
Stern: Urban Dictionary

Sports (4 matching dictionaries)

Canoe Glossary (No longer online)
Glossary of Canoe Terminology (No longer online)
Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
Stern: Sports Definitions

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)

AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
STERN: Glossary of Nautical Terms
SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
Stern: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ adjective:  Having a hardness and severity of nature or manner.
▸ adjective:  Grim and forbidding in appearance.
▸ noun:  (nautical) The rear part or after end of a ship or vessel.
▸ noun:  (figurative) The post of management or direction.
▸ noun:  The hinder part of anything.
▸ noun:  The tail of an animal; now used only of the tail of a dog.
▸ verb:  (obsolete, ambitransitive) To steer, to direct the course of (a ship).
▸ verb:  (ambitransitive, nautical) To propel or move backward or stern-first in the water.
▸ noun:  A bird, the black tern.
▸ noun:  A surname.

Similar:

demanding, exacting, austere, grim, strict, unforgiving, can, relentless, prat, inexorable, more...

Opposite:

lenient, gentle, indulgent, flexible, forgiving

Types:

bow, port, starboard, aft, more...

Phrases:

Howard Stern, stern gang, Isaac Stern, stern layer, David Stern, more...

Adjectives:

more, square, high, little, round, very, narrow, flat, german, broad, sharp

Colors:

charcoal, graphite, onyx, midnight, gunmetal, more...