· the rear part of a ship

Synonym(s): after_part, quarter, poop, tail

Hypernym(s): rear, back

· United States concert violinist (born in Russia in 1920)

Synonym(s): Stern, Isaac_Stern

· 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?"

Synonym(s): 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

Hypernym(s): body_part

· of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect; "an austere expression"; "a stern face"

Synonym(s): austere

· 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"

Synonym(s): grim, inexorable, relentless, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting

· severe and unremitting in making demands; "an exacting instructor"; "a stern disciplinarian"; "strict standards"

Synonym(s): strict, exacting

· severely simple; "a stark interior"

Synonym(s): austere, severe, stark