stewardess

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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• 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).

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) (ułekcʿorduhi) 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)

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English stewardess.

Pronunciation

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

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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