steward
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈst͡ʃuː.əd/
ipa: /ˈstjuː.əd/
ipa: /ˈstuɚd/
Forms: form: stewards
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.
Senses: glosses: A person who manages the property or affairs for another entity.
glosses: A person who manages the property or affairs for another entity.
A chief administrator of a medieval manor.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A ship's officer who is in charge of making dining arrangements and provisions.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1974 February 9, Joe, “Reactions”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 33, page 6:
glosses: A flight attendant, especially male.
glosses: A union member who is selected as a representative for fellow workers in negotiating terms with management.
glosses: A person who has charge of buildings, grounds, or animals.
glosses: Someone responsible for organizing an event
glosses: A bartender.
examples: text: a steward in a Methodist church
glosses: A fiscal agent of certain bodies.
glosses: A junior assistant in a Masonic lodge.
topics: education
higher-education
glosses: An officer who provides food for the students and superintends the kitchen; also, an officer who attends to the accounts of the students.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2001, The Innes Review:
glosses: A magistrate appointed by the crown to exercise jurisdiction over royal lands.
topics: computing
engineering
information-technology
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Somebody who is responsible for managing a set of projects, products or technologies and how they affect the IT organization to which they belong.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: A person who is responsible for the arbitration of incidents at a motor racing event and determining whether or not fines or penalties should be issued for such incidents.
glosses: A person who exercises responsible and caring administration of something; a person who exhibits stewardship.
Synonyms: sense: medieval overseer
word: bailiff
sense: medieval overseer
word: provost
sense: member of a flight crew
word: air steward
sense: member of a flight crew
word: airline steward
sense: member of a flight crew
word: flight attendant
sense: member of a flight crew
word: cabin crew
sense: union member
word: shop steward
sense: person in charge of buildings, grounds
word: caretaker
sense: person in charge of buildings, grounds
word: custodian
sense: person in charge of buildings, grounds
word: keeper
sense: person in charge of buildings, grounds
english: of estates
translation: of estates
word: groundskeeper
Hyponyms: sense: member of a flight crew
word: flight attendant
Derived terms: airline steward
air steward
bread-steward
shop steward
slip steward
Steward
stewardish
stewardism
stewardly
stewardry
stewardship
Stewart
under-steward
wine steward