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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.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Edward Burtynsky: Manufactured landscapes 35 minutes
until the manager had to, with a stern voice, say,
- Definition summary
- Having a hardness and severity of nature or manner.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce stern
Edward Burtynsky: Manufactured landscapes 35 minutes
until the manager had to, with a stern voice, say,
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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