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English to English adjective
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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. |  | source: webster1913
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Being in the stern, or being astern; as, the stern davits. | | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
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of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect | | Example: an austere expression
a stern face
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not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty | | Example: grim determination
grim necessity
Russia's final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty
relentless persecution
the stern demands of parenthood
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severe and unremitting in making demands | | Example: an exacting instructor
a stern disciplinarian
strict standards
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severely simple | | Example: a stark interior
source: wordnet30 noun
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the rear part of a ship | | source: wordnet30
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United States concert violinist (born in Russia in 1920) | | source: wordnet30
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the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | | Example: he deserves a good kick in the butt
are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?
source: wordnet30
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The black tern. | | source: webster1913
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The helm or tiller of a vessel or boat; also, the rudder. | | source: webster1913
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