flight attendant

flight attendant

English

Noun

flight attendant (plural flight attendants)

1. A member of the crew of an airplane who is responsible for the comfort and safety of its passengers.

   Synonyms: steward (usually male), cabin attendant

Usage notes

The term flight attendant replaces the older, gender-specific term stewardess, and is preferred due to its gender-neutral nature.

Hypernyms

• cabin crew

Hyponyms

• (male): steward; coffee moffie (South African, pejorative, slang); air host
• (female): stewardess; air hostess; sky girl (slang); hostie (Australian, slang); cart tart (pejorative, slang); trolley dolly (pejorative, slang)
• (female or effeminate male): trolley dolly (pejorative, slang)

Translations

member of the crew of an airplane who is responsible for the comfort and safety of its passengers

Burmese: လေယာဉ်မောင် (leyanymaung) (male), လေယာဉ်မယ် (leyanymai) (female) Catalan: hostessa (ca) f, cambrer d'avions m Chinese: Mandarin: 空中乘務員, 空中乘务员 (kōngzhōng chéngwùyuán), 空中服務員, 空中服务员 (kōngzhōng fúwùyuán), 空乘 (kōngchéng), 空服員, 空服员 (kōngfúyuán), 空姐 (zh) (kōngjiě) (female) Czech: letuška (cs) f, stevard (cs) m, stevardka (cs) f Dutch: steward (nl) Erzya: ливтязор m (livtjazor), ливтязорава f (livtjazorava) Finnish: lentoemäntä (fi), stuertti (fi) French: steward (fr) m, hôtesse de l'air (fr) f, agent de bord (fr) m (Canada), agente de bord (fr) f (Canada) Galician: azafata de voo m German: Flugbegleiter (de) m, Flugbegleiterin (de) f Greek: αεροσυνοδός (el) f (aerosynodós) Hebrew: דייל‎ (he) m (dayál), דיילת‎ f (dayélet) Hungarian: utaskísérő (hu) Ido: stewardulo

Indonesian: pramugara (id) Irish: aeróstach m Japanese: 客室乗務員 (ja) (きゃくしつじょうむいん, kyakushitsujomuin), スチュワード (ja) (suchuwādo) Macedonian: стјуард m (stjúard) Polish: steward (pl) m, stewardesa (pl) f Portuguese: comissário de bordo (pt) m, comissária de bordo f Romanian: steward (ro) m, stewardesă (ro) f Russian: бортпроводни́к (ru) m (bortprovodník), стю́ард (ru) m (stjúard), стюа́рд (ru) m (stjuárd); (woman) бортпроводни́ца (ru) f (bortprovodníca), стюарде́сса (ru) f (stjuardɛ́ssa), стюарде́сса (ru) f (stjuardéssa) Serbo-Croatian: stjuard (sh) m Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: steward m, stewardes f, stewardesa f Spanish: azafata (es) (stewardess); azafato (steward); aeromoza (es), moza (es) (Latin America, stewardess); aeromozo, mozo (es) (Latin America, steward); auxiliar de vuelo Swedish: flygvärdinna (sv) c; purser (sv), flygvärd (sv) c Vietnamese: tiếp viên hàng không Welsh: stiward m, stiwardes f