Stern vs. Solemn

Sternadjective

Having a hardness and severity of nature or manner.

Solemnadjective

Deeply serious and somber.

Sternadjective

Grim and forbidding in appearance.

Solemnadjective

Somberly impressive.

Sternnoun

(nautical) The rear part or after end of a ship or vessel.

Solemnadjective

Performed with great ceremony.

Sternnoun

(figurative) The post of management or direction.

Solemnadjective

Sacred.

Sternnoun

The hinder part of anything.

Solemnadjective

Gloomy or sombre.

Sternnoun

The tail of an animal; now used only of the tail of a dog.

Solemnadjective

Marked with religious rites and pomps; enjoined by, or connected with, religion; sacred.

‘His holy rites and solemn feasts profaned.’; ‘The worship of this image was advanced, and a solemn supplication observed everry year.’;

Sternnoun

A bird, the black tern.

Solemnadjective

Pertaining to a festival; festive; festal.

Sternnoun

The black tern.

Solemnadjective

Stately; ceremonious; grand.

‘His feast so solemn and so rich.’; ‘To-night we hold a splemn supper.’;

Sternnoun

The helm or tiller of a vessel or boat; also, the rudder.

Solemnadjective

Fitted to awaken or express serious reflections; marked by seriousness; serious; grave; devout; as, a solemn promise; solemn earnestness.

‘Nor wanting power to mitigate and swageWith solemn touches troubled thoughts.’; ‘There reigned a solemn silence over all.’;

Sternnoun

The after or rear end of a ship or other vessel, or of a boat; the part opposite to the stem, or prow.

Solemnadjective

Real; earnest; downright.

‘Frederick, the emperor, . . . has spared no expense in strengthening this city; since which time we find no solemn taking it by the Turks.’;

Sternnoun

Fig.: The post of management or direction.

‘And sit chiefest stern of public weal.’;

Solemnadjective

Affectedly grave or serious; as, to put on a solemn face.

Sternnoun

The hinder part of anything.

Solemnadjective

Made in form; ceremonious; as, solemn war; conforming with all legal requirements; as, probate in solemn form.

Sternnoun

The tail of an animal; - now used only of the tail of a dog.

Solemnadjective

dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises;

‘a grave God-fearing man’; ‘a quiet sedate nature’; ‘as sober as a judge’; ‘a solemn promise’; ‘the judge was solemn as he pronounced sentence’;

Sternadjective

Having a certain hardness or severity of nature, manner, or aspect; hard; severe; rigid; rigorous; austere; fixed; unchanging; unrelenting; hence, serious; resolute; harsh; as, a sternresolve; a stern necessity; a stern heart; a stern gaze; a stern decree.

‘The sterne wind so loud gan to rout.’; ‘I would outstare the sternest eyes that look.’; ‘When that the poor have cried, Cæsar hath wept;Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.’; ‘Stern as tutors, and as uncles hard.’; ‘These barren rocks, your stern inheritance.’;

Solemnadjective

characterized by a firm and humorless belief in the validity of your opinions;

‘both sides were deeply in earnest, even passionate’; ‘an entirely sincere and cruel tyrant’; ‘a film with a solemn social message’;

Sternadjective

Being in the stern, or being astern; as, the stern davits.

Sternnoun

the rear part of a ship

Sternnoun

United States concert violinist (born in Russia in 1920)

Sternnoun

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?’;

Sternadjective

of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect;

‘an austere expression’; ‘a stern face’;

Sternadjective

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’;

Sternadjective

severe and unremitting in making demands;

‘an exacting instructor’; ‘a stern disciplinarian’; ‘strict standards’;

Stern

The stern is the back or aft-most part of a ship or boat, technically defined as the area built up over the sternpost, extending upwards from the counter rail to the taffrail. The stern lies opposite the bow, the foremost part of a ship.