(anatomy) Alternative form of sterno-, used before a vowel.

Having a hardness and severity of nature or manner. / Grim and forbidding in appearance.

(nautical) The rear part or after end of a ship or vessel. / (figuratively) The post of management or direction. / The hinder part of anything.

(obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To steer, to direct the course of (a ship). / (transitive, intransitive, nautical) To propel or move backward or stern-first in the water.

A bird, the black tern.

A surname.

plural of Sterne

Having a stern of a particular shape or kind.

(uncountable) The state or quality of being stern. / (countable) The result or product of being stern.

Obsolete spelling of stern.