· the rear part of a ship
Synonym(s): after_part, quarter, poop, tail
· United States concert violinist (born in Russia in 1920)
Synonym(s): Stern, Isaac_Stern
· the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"
Synonym(s): 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
Hypernym(s): body_part
· of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect; "an austere expression"; "a stern face"
Synonym(s): austere
· 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"
Synonym(s): grim, inexorable, relentless, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting
· severe and unremitting in making demands; "an exacting instructor"; "a stern disciplinarian"; "strict standards"
· severely simple; "a stark interior"
Synonym(s): austere, severe, stark