stern
2
6.8
- noun
- /stɜrn/
- Archaic
- 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
∞
9.6
The rude word for the part of the body you sit on
∞
1.6
The fleshy part of the body that you sit on
75
2.5
The soft part of your body that you sit on
73
1.6
Two rounded soft parts at the back of the human body that you sit on
59
1.0
The soft part of the body that you sit on
58
7.5
The part of the body you sit on
38
1.3
The part of the body that you sit on
34
8.8
A slang word for the part of the body you sit on
32
7.9
The part of the body you sit on
31
2.0
The soft part of the body you sit on
28
2.0
The part of the body you sit on
25
7.5
An informal American word for the soft part of your body that you sit on
24
2.8
The soft part at the back of your hips that you sit on
20
8.2
The soft part of the body that you sit on
16
1.4
The part of trousers or a skirt that covers the bottom
12
9.5
The soft part of the body you sit on
11
8.1
The soft part of the body you sit on
11
7.4
The hip, buttock, and upper thigh area of the body
6
4.9
The fleshy part of the body that you sit on
6
6.6
The rear part of an animal or person's body with hips and thighs
3
3.2
The part at the back of the body that you sit on
1
9.9
The two soft parts at the back of your hips that you sit on
1
9.6
The part of the body you sit on
1
2.1
One of the two round soft parts at the back of the hips
1
9.1
The soft part of the body you sit on
1
9.4
The part of the body 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.