Meaning of stern

stern

1. firm, strict, or uncompromising: stern discipline.
2. hard, harsh, or severe: a stern reprimand.
3. rigorous or austere; of an unpleasantly serious character: stern times.
4. grim or forbidding in aspect: a stern face.

stern

1. the after part of a vessel (often opposed to stem).
2. the back or rear of anything.
3. (cap.)the constellation Puppis.
4. the tail of a hound.

Stern

1. born 1920, U.S. violinist, born in Russia.
2. 1888–1969, U.S. physicist, born in Germany: Nobel prize 1943.

stern-

1. var. ofbefore a vowel: sternite.