Stern is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STERN in dictionary:

VERB:
• to back, row backwards, also STARN
• The helm or tiller of a vessel or boat; also, the rudder.
• The after or rear end of a ship or other vessel, or of a boat; the part opposite to the stem, or prow.
• Fig.: The post of management or direction.
• The hinder part of anything.
• The tail of an animal; -- now used only of the tail of a dog.
• row boat backward
NOUN:
• the rearmost part of a ship or boat
• The black tern.
• the rear part of a ship
• United States concert violinist (born in Russia in 1920)
• the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
• rear part of a ship
• a person's bottom
ADJECTIVE:
• severe
• (of a person or their manner) serious and unrelenting, especially in the assertion of authority and exercise of discipline
• (of an act or statement) strict and severe
• (of competition or opposition) putting someone or something under extreme pressure
• severe, strict
• Being in the stern, or being astern; as, the stern davits.
• of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect
• not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty
• severe and unremitting in making demands
• severely simple
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• unyielding

Words related to STERN

grim7 starn5 sterned8 sterner7 sternest8 sterning9 sternly10 sternness9 sterns6

Words that contain STERN

astern6 sterna6 sterns6 cistern9 eastern7 pastern9 postern9 sternal7 sterned8 sterner7 sternly10 sternum9 testern7 western10 yestern10 asternal8 cisterna10 cisterns10 pasterns10 posterns10 sternage9 sternest8 sterning9 sternite8 sternson8 sternums10 sternway14 testerns8 westerns11 cisternae11 cisternal11 easterner9 episterna11 hesternal12 presterna11 prosterna11 sternages10 sternebra11 sternfast12 sternites9 sternitic11 sternmost11 sternness9 sternport11 sternpost11 sternsons9 sternward13 sternways15 testerned10 westerner12 easterners10 episternal12 episternum14 presternum14 prosternum14 sternalgia11 sternalgic13 sternboard13 sternebrae12 sternfasts13 sternports12 sternposts12 sternsheet13 sternwards14 sternworks17 substernal12 testerning11 westerners13 westernise13 westernism15 westernize22 midwestern16 consternate13 easternmost13 episternums15 morgenstern14 presternums15 prosternums15 sternalgias12 sternboards14 sternnesses11 sternotribe13 sternsheets14 sternutator11 westernised15 westernises14 westernisms16 westernized24 westernizes23 westernmost16 xiphisterna23 yesternight18 westernizer23 consternated15 consternates14 lectisternia14 morgensterns15 northeastern15 northwestern18 sinisterness12 southeastern15 southwestern18 sternocostal14 sternutation12 sternutative15 sternutators12 sternutatory15 westernising16 westernizing25 xiphisternum26 yesternights19 westernizers24 consternating16 consternation15 lectisternium17 sternforemost18 sternutations13 sternutatives16 xiphisternums27 sternomastoid16 unwesternized26 unwesternised17 consternations16 lectisterniums18 sinisternesses14 sternutatories14 westernisation17 westernization26 northeasterner17 northwesterner20 southeasterner17 southwesterner20 sternomastoids17 westernisations18 westernizations27 northeasterners18 northwesterners21 southeasterners18 southwesterners21 northeasternmos20 northwesternmos23 southwesternmos23 southeasternmos20 southeasternmost21 northwesternmost24 southwesternmost24 northeasternmost21

How to use STERN in a sentence

• It was a consequence of this that never did the sun in his course light on man half so godly stalwart, on woman half so houri-lovely, as in stern and stout old Sparta.
• He would have received such an order from a man and never thought the less of him, but the command was too stern for the smiling lips of Marianne.
• He was a stern man and overbearing and would brook no contradiction.
• It does not seem to be accounted for by anything known to us regarding his stern and solitary life, his aloofness from the vulgar, and his self-dedication to study.
• XXVIII Few wilderness adventures offer a more stern test to human nerves than the frightful rush of a maddened grizzly.
• Fighting under the eye of a somewhat stern master, he was scarcely free to choose his plan of campaign.
• Her dress was sober and correct, and her face was stern.
• Happy, though her father was a stern man, very fond of his only child, but with an obstinate will that not even she dared thwart.
• The approach to Chicago under all circumstances is bleak and stern.
• Then Courtenay caught sight of two hands clinging to the stern of the canoe.
• The torpedo had struck the destroyer near the stern, and blew off about thirty feet of the boat.
• Sir William Howe was a dark-complexioned man, stern and haughty in his deportment.
• Last night we stopped at Strathpeffer, a gay and beautiful little cure-town, which is like a walled flower-garden set down in the midst of wild and stern Caledonia.
• The listening savages sat immovable, their faces as cold and stern as stone masks.
• They use two oars at the bow to turn the ship, and two others at the stern that assist the sailing.
• His immediate successors rose from stern fanatics to ambitious conquerors.
• I try not to feed him more than four times a day extra, but he is stern with me about it.
• Still they were pulling after us, and one of the men in the stern hailed once or twice, making signs that we were to be taken by the ships.
• But now, as those three sat in the stern of the gig, and were gently pulled by the sweep of the oars, it seemed to one at least of them that she must have got into fairyland.
• The stern reality apparently consisted in scorching alkali plains, with houses of the packing-box school of architecture at a distance of seventy or eighty miles apart.

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