OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 9958

stern

/stɜːn/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
adusto • apremiante • severo
Having a hardness and severity of nature or manner.
Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world…
stern as tutors, and as uncles hard
adusto
Grim and forbidding in appearance.
these barren rocks, your stern inheritance
📚 noun • entry_id 9959

stern

/stɜːn/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
popa
The 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 manage…
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