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steward
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)
- A person who manages the property or affairs for another entity
- (historical) A chief administrator of a medieval manor.
- (nautical) A ship's officer who is in charge of making dining arrangements and provisions.
- A flight attendant, especially male.
- A union member who is selected as a representative for fellow workers in negotiating terms with management.
- A person who has charge of buildings, grounds, and/or animals.
- A fiscal agent of certain bodies.
- A junior assistant in a Masonic lodge.
- (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.
- (Scotland) A magistrate appointed by the crown to exercise jurisdiction over royal lands.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Erskine to this entry?)
- (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)
- 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)
- (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)
- 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)
- 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)
- steward
Declension
Related terms
- stewardes?
References
- steward in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
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janitor
English
Etymology
From Latin ianitor (doorkeeper)
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?d??æn?t?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?d??æn?t?/
Noun
janitor (plural janitors) (female: janitress or janitrix (rare))
- (chiefly US) Someone who looks after the maintenance and cleaning of a public building.
- (Scotland) A caretaker or custodian; someone who maintains a school building specifically and may serve other administrative roles.
- A doorman.
- (Internet slang, 4chan, sometimes derogatory) A moderator for a discussion forum.
Synonyms
- (mostly British) caretaker
- cleaner
- (British) concierge
- (One who maintains a collection, especially in a museum): curator
- custodian
- (One who cleans and maintains a garden): groundskeeper
- maintenance person
- (One who maintains a forum): moderator, mod
- porter
Derived terms
- janitoriat
Translations
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