Stern

adj. strict, uncompromising, firm; grim, harsh, austere

n. rear section of a boat (Nautical); back part of anything

n. family name; Isaac Stern (1920-2001), Russian-born American violinist; Otto Stern (1888-1969) German-born American physicist, winner of the Nobel prize in 1943

For other meanings, see Stern (disambiguation). The stern is the rear or aft part of a ship or boat, technically defined as the area built up over the sternpost, extending upwards from the counter to the taffrail.The stern area has always been the location near the steering apparatus (rudder,  tiller, ship's wheel, etc), and by extension became the domain of the ship's captain and other officers. In particular, the stern was the location of the officers' quarters, and during the age of sail became the most opulent part of the ship, with rows of windows, galleries, walkways, and elaborate decorations. This resulted in a certain amount of vulnerability, and the goal of much maneuvering in battle was to achieve the stern rake, in which a ship would pour its entire broadside into the stern.
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Noun
1. United States concert violinist (born in Russia in 1920)
(synonym) Isaac Stern
(hypernym) violinist, fiddler
(classification) Soviet Union, Russia, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, USSR

Noun
1. the rear part of a ship
(synonym) after part, quarter, poop, tail
(hypernym) rear, back
(part-holonym) ship
(part-meronym) escutcheon
2. the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"
(synonym) buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass
(hypernym) body part
(part-holonym) torso, trunk, body
Adjective
1. of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect; "an austere expression"; "a stern face"
(synonym) austere
(similar) nonindulgent
2. not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty; "grim determination"; "grim necessity"; "Russia's final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty"; "relentless persecution"; "the stern demands of parenthood"
(synonym) grim, inexorable, relentless, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting
(similar) implacable
3. severe and unremitting in making demands; "an exacting instructor"; "a stern disciplinarian"; "strict standards"
(synonym) strict, exacting
(similar) demanding

n. Stern, surname; Isaac Stern, (born 1920); Yair Stern, poet and founder of Fighters for the Freedom of Israel who was executed by the British in 1942

n. star, self-illuminating gaseous celestial body, celestial which is seen on Earth as a small light in the nighttime sky (Astronomy)

n. tern