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English

Etymology

From Middle English officer, from Anglo-Norman officer, officier, from Old French officer, Late Latin officiarius (“official”), from Latin officium (“office”) + -?rius (“-er”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??f?s?/
  • (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /??f?s?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??f?s?/
  • (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /??f?s?/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /??f?s?/
• (dialectal, informal) IPA^(key): /??fs?/
• Hyphenation: of?fi?cer

Noun

officer (plural officers)

2. One who has a position of authority in a hierarchical organization, especially in military, police or government organizations.
3. A respectful term of address for an officer, especially a police officer.
5. One who holds a public office.
7. An agent or servant imparted with the ability, to some degree, to act on initiative.
9. (colloquial, military) A commissioned officer.

Derived terms

• non-commissioned officer
• officerly
• patrol officer
• police officer

Related terms

• office
• official
• officiate

Descendants

• ? Central Dusun: upisor
• ? Punjabi: ????? (afasar)
• ? Swahili: afisa

Translations

Verb

officer (third-person singular simple present officers, present participle officering, simple past and past participle officered)

1. (transitive) To supply with officers.
2. (transitive) To command like an officer.

Synonyms

• direct
• conduct
• manage

Related terms

• CO
• NCO

Translations

Middle English

Alternative forms

• officere, officeer, offyseer, offycer, offycere, offiser, officeere, officiare, offecer, oficer, officier

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman officer, officier, from Latin offici?rius; equivalent to office +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fi??s??r/, /?fi?s??r/, /??fi?s?r/, /??fis?r/

Noun

officer (plural officers)

1. A hireling or subordinate; one employed to serve, especially at an estate.
2. An official or officeholder; the holder of a prominent office or position.
3. A municipal, local or societal official or officeholder.
4. A religious or ecclesiastical official or officeholder.
5. (religion) A deputy or subordinate of the forces of good or evil.
6. (rare) One who supervises or organises jousting.
7. (rare) A member or leader of a military force.

Descendants

• English: officer
• Scots: offisher

References

• “off??c??r, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-20.

Old French

Alternative forms

• officier

Noun

officer m (oblique plural officers, nominative singular officers, nominative plural officer)

1. officer

References

• officer on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Swedish

Etymology

From French

Pronunciation

Noun

officer c

1. officer, a military person of fänrik grade or higher
2. (archaic) ämbetsman, tjänsteman; one who holds a public office

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?stju?.?d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?stu?d/
• Hyphenation: stew?ard

Noun

steward (plural stewards, feminine stewardess)

1. A person who manages the property or affairs for another entity
   1. (historical) A chief administrator of a medieval manor.
3. (nautical) A ship's officer who is in charge of making dining arrangements and provisions.
4. A flight attendant, especially male.
5. A union member who is selected as a representative for fellow workers in negotiating terms with management.
6. A person who has charge of buildings, grounds, and/or animals.
7. A fiscal agent of certain bodies.

8. A junior assistant in a Masonic lodge.
9. (higher education) An officer who provides food for the students and superintends the kitchen; also, an officer who attends to the accounts of the students.
10. (Scotland) A magistrate appointed by the crown to exercise jurisdiction over royal lands.

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11. (information technology) Somebody who is responsible for managing a set of projects, products or technologies and how they affect the IT organization to which they belong.

Usage notes

With regard to airlines, steward is usually distinguished from the more common and exclusively feminine stewardess in colloquial speech, while the gender-neutral flight attendant is usually preferred to both in formal contexts. For the sake of brevity, steward is sometimes treated as a gender-neutral term itself and applied to both male and female flight attendants.

Synonyms

• (medieval overseer): bailiff, provost
• (member of a flight crew): air steward, airline steward; see also flight attendant
• (union member): shop steward
• (person in charge of buildings, grounds, etc.): caretaker, custodian, keeper; groundskeeper (of estates)

Hyponyms

• (member of a flight crew) See flight attendant

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

steward (third-person singular simple present stewards, present participle stewarding, simple past and past participle stewarded)

1. To act as the steward or caretaker of (something)

References

Anagrams

• drawest, strawed, swarted, wardest

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English steward.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sty.??rt/, /?sti.??rt/
• Hyphenation: ste?ward

Noun

steward m (plural stewards, feminine stewardess)

1. (aviation) steward, male flight attendant

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English steward.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stju.wa?d/, /sti.wa?d/, /sti.wa?t/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /stu.wœ?d/

Noun

steward m (plural stewards)

1. steward

Further reading

• “steward” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Polish

Etymology

From English steward.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?stju.art/

Noun

steward m pers (feminine stewardesa)

1. steward, flight attendant

Declension

Further reading

• steward in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• steward in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English steward.

Noun

steward m (plural stewarzi)

1. steward

Declension

Related terms

• stewardes?

References

• steward in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)