steward

US /ˈstjuː.əːd/ See IPA manual

Freq #12361

Meanings

1

noun
A ship's officer who is in charge of making dining arrangements and provisions.

There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy. Mail bags, so I understand, are being put on board. Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place.
2

noun
A flight attendant, especially male.

The gay Kibbutzniks I met were all ex-Kibbutzniks who were curretly holding jobs as El-Al stewards or in some similarly classic gay professions.
3

noun
A fiscal agent of certain bodies.

A steward in a Methodist church.
4

noun
A magistrate appointed by the crown to exercise jurisdiction over royal lands.

These lands must have been retained by some earlier Steward, perhaps Walter II (1204-41), when most of Erskine had been made into a fief for Henry, first known ancestor of the Erskine family.

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Word family

Derived forms bread-stewardstewardishstewardismstewardlessstewardlikestewardlystewardrystewardshipstewardsmanstewartstewartryunder-steward

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shop steward
an elected union representative who speaks for workers to management

Noun + noun

Etymology

From Middle English steward, stiward, from Old English stiġweard (“steward, housekeeper, one who has the superintendence of household affairs, guardian”), from stiġ (“a wooden enclosure; house, hall”) + weard (“ward, guard, guardian, keeper”), equivalent to sty + ward. Compare Icelandic stívarður (“steward”). More at sty, ward.

Topics

Aviation & Flight Transportation Word Formation & Derivatives

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# steward

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C1
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /ˈstjuː.əːd/
**Frequency rank:** 12361

## Meanings
1. A ship's officer who is in charge of making dining arrangements and provisions.
2. A flight attendant, especially male.
3. A fiscal agent of certain bodies.
4. A magistrate appointed by the crown to exercise jurisdiction over royal lands.

## Examples
- There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy. Mail bags, so I understand, are being put on board. Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place.
- The gay Kibbutzniks I met were all ex-Kibbutzniks who were curretly holding jobs as El-Al stewards or in some similarly classic gay professions.
- A steward in a Methodist church.
- These lands must have been retained by some earlier Steward, perhaps Walter II (1204-41), when most of Erskine had been made into a fief for Henry, first known ancestor of the Erskine family.

## Derived Forms
- bread-steward
- stewardish
- stewardism
- stewardless
- stewardlike
- stewardly
- stewardry
- stewardship
- stewardsman
- stewart
- stewartry
- under-steward

## Etymology
From Middle English steward, stiward, from Old English stiġweard (“steward, housekeeper, one who has the superintendence of household affairs, guardian”), from stiġ (“a wooden enclosure; house, hall”) + weard (“ward, guard, guardian, keeper”), equivalent to sty + ward. Compare Icelandic stívarður (“steward”). More at sty, ward.

## Topics
- Aviation & Flight
- Transportation
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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