astern
adverb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 adverb
stern foremost or backward
the steamer went astern at half speed
Sense 2 adverb
at or near or toward the stern of a ship or tail of an airplane
stow the luggage aft
Related & opposite
- fore antonym
Sense 3 adverb
(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
Related & opposite
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | antonym | Related & opposite | fore |
| 3 | domain topic | Related & opposite | airplane |
| 3 | domain topic | Related & opposite | ship |