What is the meaning of Stern?

noun

• The rear part of a ship.
  • synonyms: after part, quarter, poop, tail
• United States concert violinist (born in Russia in 1920.
  • synonyms: Isaac Stern
• The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on.
  • usage: "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing"
  • synonyms: 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

adjective

• Of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect.
  • usage: "an austere expression"; "a stern face"
  • synonyms: austere
• Not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty.
  • usage: "grim determination"; "grim necessity"; "Russia's final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty"; "relentless persecution"; "the stern demands of parenthood"
  • synonyms: grim, inexorable, relentless, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting
• Severe and unremitting in making demands.
  • usage: "an exacting instructor"; "a stern disciplinarian"; "strict standards"
  • synonyms: strict, exacting
• Severely simple.
  • usage: "a stark interior"
  • synonyms: austere, severe, stark