Usually means: Most severe, strict, or firm.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. sternest: Merriam-Webster
  2. sternest: Collins English Dictionary
  3. sternest: Vocabulary.com
  4. sternest: Wordnik
  5. sternest: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. sternest: Wiktionary
  7. sternest: Dictionary.com
  8. sternest: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. sternest: FreeDictionary.org
  10. sternest: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sternest: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sternest: Encyclopedia

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  1. sternest: Idioms

(Note: See stern as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Stern)

adjective:  Having a hardness and severity of nature or manner.
adjective:  Grim and forbidding in appearance.
noun:  (nautical) The rear part or after end of a ship or vessel.
noun:  (figurative) The post of management or direction.
noun:  The hinder part of anything.
noun:  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).
verb:  (ambitransitive, nautical) To propel or move backward or stern-first in the water.
noun:  A bird, the black tern.
noun:  A surname.
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