Sternname

• 1

  A surname.

sternadj詞源 1/stɜːn/

• 1

  Having a hardness and severity of nature or manner.

  • I haue beene wooed, as I intreat thee now, / Euen by the ſterne, and direfull God of warre, / VVhoſe ſinowie necke in battel nere did bow, / VVho conquers where he comes in euery iarre; […]
  • stern as tutors, and as uncles hard
• 2

  Grim and forbidding in appearance.

  • The remark earned me a stern rebuke.
  • these barren rocks, your stern inheritance

sternnoun詞源 2/stɜːn/

• 1

  nauticaltransportThe rear part (after end) of a ship or other vessel.

  • Holonyms: watercraft < vessel
  • Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern.
• 2

  The post of management or direction.

  • and sit chiefest stern of public weal
• 3

  The hinder part of anything.

• 4

  The tail of an animal; now used only of the tail of a dog.

  • And all attonce her beaſtly bodie raizd / With doubled forces high aboue the ground: / Tho wrapping vp her wrethed ſterne arownd, / Lept fierce vpon his ſhield, [...]

sternverb詞源 2/stɜːn/

• 1

  obsoleteTo steer, to direct the course of (a ship).

• 2

  nauticaltransportTo propel or move backward or stern-first in the water.

sternnoun詞源 3/stɜːn/

• 1

  A bird, the black tern, seabird.