Crossword-Solution: STERN
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Stern | n. | The black tern. |
| Stern | superl. | 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. |
| Stern | v. t. | The helm or tiller of a vessel or boat; also, the rudder. |
| Stern | v. t. | The after or rear end of a ship or other vessel, or of a boat; the part opposite to the stem, or prow. |
| Stern | v. t. | Fig.: The post of management or direction. |
| Stern | v. t. | The hinder part of anything. |
| Stern | v. t. | The tail of an animal; -- now used only of the tail of a dog. |
| Stern | a. | Being in the stern, or being astern; as, the stern davits. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| STERN | anagram | ERNST, NERTS, NSERT, RENTS, SNERT, TERNS, TRENS |
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The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
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Sentences with STERN (5)
From far within him he heard a creaking as of rusty portals, and through them came a stern tap-tap-tap, like hammering in the night when one cannot sleep.
The little town behind them had vanished as if it had never been, had fallen behind the swell of the prairie, and the stern frozen country received them into its bosom.
That’s why I say that a woman so charming as yourself, Miss Everdene, is hardly a blessing to her race.” The handsome sergeant’s features were during this speech as rigid and stern as John Knox’s in addressing his gay young queen.
Stern-visaged queens, since coming to this land First in your sanctuary I bent the knee, Frown not on me or Phoebus, who, when erst He told me all my miseries to come, Spake of this respite after many years, Some haven in a far-off land, a rest Vouchsafed at last by dread divinities.
Doubtless, however, either of these stern and black-browed Puritans would have thought it quite a sufficient retribution for his sins that, after so long a lapse of years, the old trunk of the family tree, with so much venerable moss upon it, should have borne, as its topmost bough, an idler like myself.
Quotes with STERN (3)
If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.
Let the children have their night of fun and laughter. Let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures before we turn again to the stern task and the formidable years that lie before us, resolved that, by our sacrifice and daring, these same children shall not be robbed of their inheritance or denied their right to live in a free and decent world." Winston Churchill Christmas Eve Message, 1941 as printed in "In the Dark Streets Shineth.
In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die.
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Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 680 times in crossword archives (1946–2025).