astern
/əˈstɝn/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.52 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "After we had row'd, or rather driven about a League and a Half, as we reckon'd it, a raging Wave, Mountain-like, came rowling a-stern of us, and plainly bad us expect the Coup-de-Grace."
- "If one ship is following another, the first is astern of the second."
- "When we first espied the Dutch fleet sailing towards us, our whole blue squadron was astern much farther from us, so that Prince Rupert thought it absolutely necessary to slacken sail that they might have time to join us."
- "Every yachtsman knows that if the ballast of a ship be too afore or too astern."
- "The chief engineer's evidence of the S.S. Lennox was the best given; but, as will be seen, he asserted that from the orders he received the Lennox's course was more astern than ahead."
- "but when near Cape Palmas the wind will perhaps be more astern"
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /əˈstɝn/
- British English: /əˈstɜːn/
Usage
Inflected Forms
more astern (comparative)
most astern (superlative)