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STERN

Definition:

[noun] the rear part of a ship
Synonyms: after part, quarter, poop, tail
[noun] United States concert violinist (born in Russia in 1920)
Synonyms: Stern, Isaac Stern
[noun] 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?"
Synonyms: 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
[adjective] of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect; "an austere expression"; "a stern face"
Synonyms: austere
[adjective] 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"
Synonyms: grim, inexorable, relentless, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting
[adjective] severe and unremitting in making demands; "an exacting instructor"; "a stern disciplinarian"; "strict standards"
Synonyms: strict, exacting