stern
12
6.8
- noun
- /stɜrn/
- Archaic
:
nalgas
- The old mage smiled at the stern-faced boy who had returned with a bucket and mop.
Examples
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After a long day, I sat down hard on my stern to rest.
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Anya approaches a stern-looking building with a sign over the door: "The People's Bureau of Bureaucracy."
Fiction book (1997) -
Let the stern fall.
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That is my stern.
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I got the stern.
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It was my stern.
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Otis loved his grandmothers, his sweet and stern Aunt Rosalind, and his mother.
Fiction book (1990) -
The children laughed as they plopped down on their sterns in the grass.
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He complained that sitting for too long on his stern made it sore.
Synonyms
∞
5.7
The fleshy part of your body that you sit on
∞
1.6
The fleshy part of the body that you sit on
123
1.4
The part of trousers or a skirt that covers the bottom
118
1.0
The soft part of the body that you sit on
81
7.9
The part of the body you sit on
77
9.6
The rude word for the part of the body you sit on
71
2.1
One of the two round soft parts at the back of the hips
55
7.5
The part of the body you sit on
41
2.0
The part of the body you sit on
38
1.3
The part of the body that you sit on
25
2.0
The soft part of the body you sit on
23
2.5
The soft part of your body that you sit on
23
7.5
An informal American word for the soft part of your body that you sit on
19
2.8
The soft part at the back of your hips that you sit on
17
8.2
The soft part of the body that you sit on
12
9.5
The soft part of the body you sit on
11
8.1
The soft part of the body you sit on
8
7.4
The hip, buttock, and upper thigh area of the body
7
4.9
The fleshy part of the body that you sit on
3
8.8
A slang word for the part of the body you sit on
2
3.2
The part at the back of the body that you sit on
1
9.4
The part of the body you sit on
1
9.1
The soft part of the body you sit on
Two rounded soft parts at the back of the human body that you sit on
The part of the body you sit on
The rear part of an animal or person's body with hips and thighs
The two soft parts at the back of your hips that you sit on
Idioms
Compounds
5
3.4
A firm, serious statement that tells someone to stop wrong or dangerous behavior
Surface Forms
Etymology
The noun stern for the buttocks uses the same basic idea of 'rear' as the ship sense, so it simply means the body's 'back end' or 'rear'. This makes it easy to remember because both uses point to the back part of something.