noun. the rear part of a ship |
noun. United States concert violinist (born in Russia in 1920) |
noun. 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: rear, prat, posterior, nates, keister, rear end, rump, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, hindquarters, hind end, fundament, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, arse |
adj. of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect an austere expression|a stern face |
adj. 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 |
adj. severe and unremitting in making demands an exacting instructor|a stern disciplinarian|strict standards |
adj. severely simple a stark interior |
