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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A woman flight attendant.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A female steward; specifically, a woman who waits upon women in passenger-vessels, etc.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A female steward; specifically, a woman employed in passenger vessels to attend to the wants of female passengers.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A female steward
  • noun A female flight attendant

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a woman steward on an airplane

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