Dictionary Definition
steward
Noun
1 someone who manages property or other affairs
for someone else
2 the ship's officer who is in charge of
provisions and dining arrangements
3 an attendant on an airplane [syn: flight
attendant]
4 a union member who is elected to represent
fellow workers in negotiating with management [syn: shop
steward]
User Contributed Dictionary
Pronunciation
The word is pronounced "stew-urd".Noun
- A person who manages the property or affairs for another entity.
- A ship's officer who is in charge of making dining arrangements and provisions.
- A flight attendant, especially but not exclusively a male flight attendant. Often as "air steward", "airline steward", etc.
- A union member who is selected as a representative for fellow workers in negotiating terms with management. [syn: shop steward]
- A person who has charge of buildings and/or grounds and/or animals. [syn: custodian, keeper]
- In IT, somebody who is responsible for managing a set of projects, products or technologies and how they affect the IT organization to which they belong.
Translations
A person who manages the property or affairs for
another entity
- Spanish: administrador, gestor
A ship's officer who is in charge making dining
arrangements and provisions or to assist the chef
- Spanish: mozo
An attendant on an airplane
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
- Finnish: tilanhoitaja, pehtori
In IT, somebody who is responsible for managing
a set of projects, products or technologies
Derived terms
Extensive Definition
The term Steward may refer to:
- Arch-Steward, a seneschal, prince elector of the Holy Roman Empire
- Steward(ess), a Flight attendant
- Wine steward, a sommelier
- Butler, the steward of a household
- Steward (band), an Australian musical group
- Steward (office), a servant who manages property
- Steward's Assistant on a ship
- Chief Steward on a ship
- Lord Steward, an important official of the English Royal Household
- Union steward, an official position within a labor union. Also known as a Shop Steward
Places
In fiction
- Stewards of Gondor, rulers from J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium of Middle-earth
See also
steward in German: Steward
steward in Spanish: Mozo
steward in Esperanto: Steward
steward in Italian: Steward
steward in Dutch: Steward
steward in Japanese: スチュワード
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Federal, Ganymede, Hebe, MC, accountant, aerial
photographer, agent, air
warden, aircrew,
aircrewman, airline
hostess, airline stewardess, amanuensis, attendant, attorney, auditor, avigator, baggage agent,
bailiff, bakehead, batman, bellboy, bellhop, bellman, belly gunner, black
gang, boilerman,
bombardier, bookkeeper, bootblack, boots, bungs, bursar, business agent, butler, cabin boy, caddie, care for, caretaker, cashier, cashkeeper, castellan, caterer, chamberlain, chandler, chips, chore boy, claim agent,
clerk, commercial agent,
commissariat,
commissary,
commissary steward, commission agent, complement, comptroller, conservator, consignee, contend with,
controller, cope
with, copyboy, crew, crew chief, croupier, cupbearer, curator, custodian, customer agent,
deal with, deckhand,
deckie, depositary, depository, do with, donor, dupe, emcee, errand boy, errand girl,
factor, fed, federal agent, financial
officer, fireman, flight
attendant, flight crew, footboy, forest ranger, freight
agent, functionary,
furnisher, game
warden, gamekeeper,
general agent, gofer,
governor, guardian, guardian angel, gun
loader, gunner, hand, handle, hospital steward,
hostess, house steward,
housekeeper,
implement, instrument, insurance agent,
janitor, keeper, land agent, landing
signalman, landreeve,
law agent, librarian,
lifeguard, lifesaver, liquidator, literary agent,
loan agent, machine gunner, mail orderly, majordomo, manage, manciple, master of ceremonies,
merchant, meteorologist, navigator, news agent, next
friend, office boy, office girl, official, oiler, orderly, page, parliamentary agent,
passenger agent, patron,
paymaster, press
agent, prochein ami, proctor, procurator, provider, provisioner, puppet, purchasing agent, purse
bearer, purser, purveyor, quartermaster, radio
operator, ranger, real
estate agent, receiver,
retailer, roustabout, sales agent,
secretary, seneschal, shepherd, snip, snips, sparks, special agent, squire, station agent, stewardess, stock clerk,
stoker, storekeeper, supplier, sutler, tender, theatrical agent, ticket
agent, tool, torpedoman, trainbearer, travel agent,
treasurer, treat, trustee, use, usher, victualer, vivandier, walking delegate,
warden, warder, watch, yeoman