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Synonyms for astern
əˈstɜrnastern

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Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. asternadverb

    stern foremost or backward

    "the steamer went astern at half speed"

    Synonyms:
    aft, abaft

  2. aft, abaft, asternadverb

    at or near or toward the stern of a ship or tail of an airplane

    "stow the luggage aft"; "ships with square sails sail fairly efficiently with the wind abaft"; "the captain looked astern to see what the fuss was about"

    Synonyms:
    aft, abaft

  3. asternadverb

    (of a ship or an airplane) behind

    "we dropped her astern on the end of a seven-inch manilla, and she laid comfortably on the ebb tide"

    Synonyms:
    aft, abaft

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Dictionary of English Synonymes1.0 / 1 vote

  1. asternadjective

    Synonyms:
    (Naut.) behind, back

  2. asternadjective

    Synonyms:
    backward, rearward, abaft

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "astern":

    rearward

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How to use astern in a sentence?

  1. Thomas Jefferson:

    I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.


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