stern (
http://definr.com/stern)
adj 1: of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in
aspect; "an austere expression"; "a stern face" [syn:
austere]
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 [syn:
grim,
inexorable,
relentless,
unappeasable,
unforgiving,
unrelenting]
3: severe and unremitting in making demands; "an exacting
instructor"; "a stern disciplinarian"; "strict standards"
[syn:
strict,
exacting]
4: (nautical) pertaining to the after part of a vessel [syn:
stern(a)]
n 1: the rear part of a ship [syn:
after part,
quarter,
poop,
tail]
2: United States concert violinist (born in Russia in 1920)
[syn:
Stern,
Isaac Stern]
3: the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on [syn:
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]