stern
/stɜːn//stɝn/
adjective
- 1
Having a hardness and severity of nature or manner.
- 2
Grim and forbidding in appearance.
noun
- 1
The rear part or after end of a ship or vessel.
- 2
The post of management or direction.
- 3
The hinder part of anything.
- 4
The tail of an animal; now used only of the tail of a dog.
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noun
- 1
A bird, the black tern.
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