different between steward vs governor

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)

English

Alternative forms

• gouernour, gouvernor, gouvernour, governer, governour (all obsolete)
• guvnah, guvnuh (both informal)

Etymology

From Middle English governour, from Old French gouvreneur, from Latin gubernator, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (kubern?t?s, “steersman, pilot, guide”), from ???????? (kuberná?, “to steer, to drive, to guide, to act as a pilot”), of disputed origin. Doublet of gubernator.

Pronunciation

• (UK, non-rhotic) IPA^(key): /???v(?)n?(?)/
• (US, rhotic) IPA^(key): /???v??n??/
• (US, non-rhotic) IPA^(key): /???v?n?(?)/
• (US, rhotic, r-dissimilation) IPA^(key): /???v?n??/

Noun

governor (plural governors, feminine governess)

1. (politics) The chief executive officer of a first-level division of a country.
   • 1999, Karen O'Connor, The essentials of American government: continuity and change, p 17

     Younger voters are more libertarian in political philosophy than older voters and are credited with the success of libertarian governor Jesse Ventura of Minnesota

2. A device which regulates or controls some action of a machine through automatic feedback.
3. A member of a decision-making for an organization or entity (including some public agencies) similar to or equivalent to a board of directors (used especially for banks); a member of the board of governors.
   • Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, www.federalreserve.gov (November 6, 2009)

     The seven members of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate.

4. (informal) Father.
5. (informal) Boss, employer.
6. (grammar) A constituent of a phrase that governs another.
7. (dated) One who has the care or guardianship of a young man; a tutor; a guardian.
8. (nautical) A pilot; a steersman.

Synonyms

• (head of a province): viceroy (of large divisions of a kingdom or empire); proconsul (of Roman regions, historical); bailiff, seneschal, intendant (of French regions, historical); tao tai (obsolete), circuit intendant, intendant, daotai (of Chinese regions, historical); provost (obsolete); gubernator (now humorous)

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

Translations

Middle English

Noun

governor

1. Alternative form of governour