steward
English
/ˈstjuː.əd/, /ˈstuɚd/
noun
Definitions
- A person who manages the property or affairs for another entity, particularly (historical) the chief administrator of a medieval manor.
- A ship's officer who is in charge of making dining arrangements and provisions.
- A flight attendant, (chiefly) a male flight attendant.
- A union member who is selected as a representative for fellow workers in negotiating terms with management.
- A person who has charge of buildings and/or grounds and/or animals.
- A fiscal agent of certain bodies.
- In some colleges, an officer who provides food for the students and superintends the kitchen; also, an officer who attends to the accounts of the students.
- In Scotland, a magistrate appointed by the crown to exercise jurisdiction over royal lands.
- In information technology, somebody who is responsible for managing a set of projects, products or technologies and how they affect the IT organization to which they belong.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English steward inherited from Old English stīweard affix from English sty (climb, ascend) + English ward (toward, keeping, ward, direction).
Origin
English
ward
Gloss
toward, keeping, ward, direction
Concept
Semantic Field
Spatial relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
向
Emoji
🧭
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bearward English
- beward English
- castleward English
- fireward English
- hayward English
- hogsty English
- hogward English
- pigsty English
- stewardess English
- stewardless English
- stewardlike English
- stewardly English
- stewardry English
- stewardship English
- stewardsman English
- stile English
- stirrup English
- sty English
- styful English
- stylike English
- swinesty English
- unstewardly English
- ward English
- wardcorps English
- wardest English
- wardeth English
- wardless English
- wardmate English
- wardmote English
- wardroom English
- wardship English
- wardsman English
- wardswoman English
- whenceward English
- woodward English
- Stewardess German
- steward Dutch, Flemish
- stewardess Dutch, Flemish
- steward French
- стюард Russian
- стюардесса Russian
- stuert Norwegian Bokmål
- スチュワーデス Japanese
- スチュワード Japanese
- steward Polish
- stewardesa Polish
- stuert Norwegian Nynorsk
- stīweard Old English
- steward Middle English
- stiwardshepe Middle English
- sty Middle English
- ward Middle English
- steward Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- stewardesă Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- ward Manx
- 스튜어디스 Korean
- iwodi Zulu
- wot Tok Pisin
- sty
- ward
- stile
- beward
- hogsty
- pigsty
- styful
- hogward
- wardeth
- stylike
- wardest
- stirrup
- hayward
- bearward
- wardsman
- wardroom
- woodward
- wardless
- wardship
- swinesty
- wardmote
- wardmate
- fireward
- wardcorps
- stewardly
- stewardry
- castleward
- wardswoman
- stewardess
- whenceward
- stewardsman
- stewardship
- stewardless
- unstewardly
- stewardlike