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How to pronounce “stern”

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Pronunciation guide for stern

Learning goal
Practice the English pronunciation of stern with real speech in context.
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8 YouTube examples
Real speech example
The Trick to Powerful Public Speakingif I'd go and sit in their boardroom where 30 very stern-looking,
Definition summary
Having a hardness and severity of nature or manner.

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How to pronounce stern

The Trick to Powerful Public Speaking

if I'd go and sit in their boardroom where 30 very stern-looking,

Example Sentences

A Deep Dive Into “stern”

Meaning

  • [Adjective]
  • Having a hardness and severity of nature or manner.
  • Grim and forbidding in appearance.
  • [Noun]
  • (nautical) The rear part (after end) of a ship or other vessel.
  • (figurative) The post of management or direction.
  • The hinder part of anything.
  • The tail of an animal; now used only of the tail of a dog.
  • [Verb]
  • (obsolete, ambitransitive) To steer, to direct the course of (a ship).
  • (ambitransitive, nautical) To propel or move backward or stern-first in the water.

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