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Spartan vs Stern - What's the difference?

spartan | stern |

As nouns the difference between spartan and stern

is that spartan is a red apple cultivar from british columbia, canada while stern is a star; a small luminous dot that can be seen on the night sky.

As a proper noun spartan

is a citizen of sparta.

As an adjective spartan

is of or relating to sparta or its citizens.

spartan

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Austere, frugal, characterized by self-denial.
    • I went on the retreat to the monastery, thinking I would be sleeping in a spartan cell, only to discover a simple but comfortable bedroom.
  • Resolute in the face of danger or adversity.
    • The spartan legionaries vowed to fight to the death.
  • Lacking in decoration and luxury.
    • After ten years as a fashion designer in the rough-and-tumble Garment District, Eloise left New York for the spartan but serene life of a farmer's wife.

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    stern

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) stern, sterne, sturne, from (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Having a hardness and severity of nature or manner.
  • * (John Dryden)
    • stern as tutors, and as uncles hard
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=76, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Snakes and ladders , passage=Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins.}}
  • Grim and forbidding in appearance.
  • * (William Wordsworth)
    • these barren rocks, your stern inheritance

    Etymology 2

    Most likely from (etyl) , from the same Germanic root.

    Noun

    (wikipedia stern) (en noun)
  • (nautical) The rear part or after end of a ship or vessel.
  • * , chapter=7
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Old Applegate, in the stern', just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the ' stern .}}
  • (figurative) The post of management or direction.
  • * (William Shakespeare)
    • and sit chiefest stern of public weal
  • The hinder part of anything.
    • (Spenser)
  • The tail of an animal; now used only of the tail of a dog.
    • Antonyms
    * bow
    Derived terms
    * from stem to stern * sternpost
    See also
    * keel

    Etymology 3

    (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A bird, the black tern.

    • Anagrams

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    Noun

    (m)
  • (l) (luminous dot appearing in the night sky)

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