stewardess

See also: Stewardess

English

Etymology

steward +‎ -ess

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstu.ɚ.dɪs/, /ˈstʊɹ.dɪs/
• IPA^(key): /stjuː.əˈdɛs/, /ˈstjuː.ə.dɛs/, /ˈstjuː.ə.dɪs/, /ˈstjʊə.dɪs/
• Hyphenation: stew‧ard‧ess

Noun

stewardess (plural stewardesses, masculine steward)

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

Synonyms

• air hostess
• air host (female)
• air stewardess
• air steward (female)
• cart tart (pejorative, slang)
• flight hostess
• flight host (female)
• flight stewardess
• flight steward (female)
• hostie (Australia, slang)
• sky girl (slang)
• trolley dolly (pejorative, slang)

 

Hypernyms

• air attendant (male and female)
• air host (male and female)
• air steward (male and female)
• flight attendant (male and female)
• flight host (male and female)
• flight steward (male and female)
• steward (male and female)

 

Coordinate terms

• air host (male)
• air steward (male)
• flight host (male)
• flight steward (male)
• steward (male)

 

Translations

female flight attendant

• Arabic: مُضِيفَة طَيَرَان f (muḍīfat ṭayarān)

  Egyptian Arabic: مضيفة f (muḍīfa)

• Armenian: ուղեկցորդուհի (hy) (uġekcʻorduhi)
• 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), (any gender) 空乘 (kōngchéng)

• Dutch: stewardess (nl) f
• Esperanto: stevardino
• Finnish: lentoemäntä (fi)
• French: hôtesse de l’air (fr) f, agente de bord (fr) f (Canada)
• Galician: covilleira f, azafata f
• German: Flugbegleiterin (de) f, Stewardess (de) f, Stewardeß (de) f (old spelling)
• Greek: αεροσυνοδός (el) f (aerosynodós)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Ido: stewardino
• Indonesian: pramugari (id)
• Irish: aeróstach m (gender-neutral)
• Japanese: スチュワーデス (ja) (suchuwādesu)
• Macedonian: стјуарде́са f (stjuardésa)
• Polish: stewardessa f
• Portuguese: aeromoça (pt) f
• Romanian: stewardesă (ro) f, ospătară f
• Russian: стюарде́сса (ru) f (stjuardɛ́ssa), стюарде́сса (ru) f (stjuardéssa)
• Serbo-Croatian: stjuardèsa (sh) f
• Spanish: aeromoza (es) f (Latin America), azafata (es) f (Spain, Argentina, Uruguay)
• Swedish: flygvärdinna (sv) c

See also

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

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English stewardess.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌsty.ʋɑrˈdɛs/, /ˌsti.ʋɑrˈdɛs/
• Hyphenation: ste‧war‧dess
• Rhymes: -ɛs

Noun

stewardess f (plural stewardessen, masculine steward)

1. stewardess, air hostess

   Synonyms: hofmeesteres, luchtgastvrouw, luchtwaardin