stewardess

See also: Stewardess and Stewardeß

English

Etymology

From steward +‎ -ess (feminine suffix).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈstu.ɚ.dɪs/, /ˈstʊɹ.dɪs/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /stjuː.əˈdɛs/, /ˈstjuː.ə.dɛs/, /ˈstjuː.ə.dɪs/, /ˈstjʊə.dɪs/

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• Rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɛs
• Hyphenation: stew‧ard‧ess

Noun

stewardess (plural stewardesses or (humorous, nonstandard) stewardii)

1. A female flight attendant (a member of the crew of an airplane who is responsible for the comfort and safety of its passengers).

Usage notes

This term is still commonly used in Singapore and Malaysia, but is now dated and considered sexist language in the United States.

Synonyms

(female):

• air hostess
• air stewardess
• cart tart (pejorative, slang)
• flight hostess
• flight stewardess
• hostie (Australian English slang)
• sky girl (slang)
• sky waitress
• trolley dolly (pejorative, slang)

 

Hypernyms

(gender-neutral):

• air attendant
• air host
• air steward
• flight attendant
• flight host
• flight steward
• steward

 

Coordinate terms

(male):

• air host
• air steward
• flight host
• flight steward
• steward

 

Translations

female flight attendant

• Albanian: stjuardesë f
• Arabic: مُضِيفَةْ طَيَرَان‎ f (muḍīfat ṭayarān), مُضِيفَة‎ f (muḍīfa), مُضِيفَة جَوِّيَّة‎ f (muḍīfa jawwiyya)

  Egyptian Arabic: مضيفة‎ f (muḍīfa)

• Armenian: ուղեկցորդուհի (hy) (uġekcʿorduhi)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܫܲܡܫܵܢܬܵܐ‎ f (mšamšāntā)
• Azerbaijani: stüardessa
• Belarusian: сцюардэ́са f (scjuardésa), бортправадні́ца f (bortpravadníca)
• Bulgarian: стюарде́са (bg) f (stjuardésa)
• Burmese: လေယာဉ်မယ် (my) (leyanymai)
• Catalan: hostessa (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 空中小姐 (hung¹ zung¹ siu² ze²), 空姐 (hung¹ ze²)

  Mandarin: 空中小姐 (zh) (kōngzhōng xiǎojiě), 空姐 (zh) (kōngjiě), (unisex) 空乘 (zh) (kōngchéng)

• Czech: letuška (cs) f, stevardka (cs) f
• Danish: stewardesse c
• Dutch: stewardess (nl) f
• Esperanto: stevardino
• Estonian: stjuardess
• Finnish: lentoemäntä (fi)
• French: hôtesse de l’air (fr) f, agente de bord (fr) f (Canada), stewardess (fr) f (Anglicism)
• Galician: covilleira f, azafata f
• German: Flugbegleiterin (de) f, Stewardess (de) f, Stewardeß (de) f (old spelling)
• Greek: αεροσυνοδός (el) f (aerosynodós)
• Hebrew: דַיֶלֶת \ דיילת‎ f (dayélet)
• Hindi: परिचारिका (hi) f (paricārikā)
• Icelandic: flugfreyja (is) f
• Ido: stewardino
• Indonesian: pramugari (id)
• Irish: aeróstach m (gender-neutral)
• Japanese: スチュワーデス (ja) (suchuwādesu), キャビンアテンダント (kyabin atendanto)
• Kazakh: аспансерік (aspanserık)
• Korean: 스튜어디스 (ko) (seutyueodiseu)
• Kyrgyz: стюардесса (styuardessa)
• Latvian: stjuarte f, stjuartese f
• Lithuanian: stiuardesė f
• Macedonian: стјуарде́са f (stjuardésa)
• Malay: pramugari
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: flyvertinne (no) m or f

• Polish: stewardesa (pl) f, stewardessa f
• Portuguese: aeromoça (pt) f (Brazil), hospedeira de bordo f
• Romanian: stewardesă (ro) f, ospătară f
• Russian: стюарде́сса (ru) f (stjuardɛ́ssa), стюарде́сса (ru) f (stjuardéssa), бортпроводни́ца (ru) f (bortprovodníca)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: стјуардѐса f

  Roman: stjuardèsa (sh) f

• Slovak: letuška f, stevardka f
• Slovene: stevardesa f
• Spanish: aeromoza (es) f (Latin America), azafata (es) f (Spain, Argentina, Uruguay)
• Swedish: flygvärdinna (sv) c
• Tajik: стюардесса (styuardessa)
• Turkish: hostes (tr)
• Ukrainian: стюарде́са f (stjuardésa), бортпровідни́ця f (bortprovidnýcja)
• Uzbek: styuardessa (uz)
• Yiddish: סטואַרדקע‎ f (stuardke)

See also

• air nurse, flight nurse (obsolete form for air stewardess, from when medical qualifications were needed)

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English stewardess.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌsty.ʋɑrˈdɛs/, /ˌsti.ʋɑrˈdɛs/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: ste‧war‧dess
• Rhymes: -ɛs

Noun

stewardess f (plural stewardessen, masculine steward)

1. stewardess, air hostess

   Synonyms: hofmeesteres, luchtgastvrouw, luchtwaardin