Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A woman flight attendant. See Usage Note at -ess.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A female steward; specifically, a woman who waits upon women in passenger-vessels, etc.
Wiktionary
- n. A female steward
- n. A female flight attendant
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A female steward; specifically, a woman employed in passenger vessels to attend to the wants of female passengers.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a woman steward on an airplane
Examples
“Life on Mars (“Coffee, Tea or Annie”) – Slain stewardess turns out to be the spitting image of Annie, so she goes undercover to find the murderer.”
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“I called the stewardess and asked for another Coke.”
“Here he was, spending money he might never get back to give her a chance, and she called the stewardess because he kissed her!”
“My dear, shall I call the stewardess, or one of your friends, to help you?" he asked, with so much anxiety on her account that Nealie was instantly sobered, and proceeded to explain the situation.”
“The stewardess is taking a rest and cannot be disturbed.”
“I called the stewardess, and asked if I could be seated elsewhere, perhaps next to someone who understood that reading and writing were not activities to be abandoned for ever upon leaving school.”
“A stewardess is forced by her airline to accompany a spoiled/bitchy Princess straight out of a Disney cartoon on a flight where she’s the only passenger.”
“Draper's tryst with the stewardess was an insanely personal drama for him.”
All the mad men and all the mad women can't tell a joke to save their lives
“Then I was the person who refused to buy headphones to watch the in-flight movie and kept calling the stewardess over to explain the plot of “Pleasantville.””
The Washington Post: An apology to JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater
“I don ` t know if that includes calling your stewardess a bitch.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘stewardess’.
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Air Travel
This list started with me looking up 'non revs' as a friend in the travel industry posted a cartoon about 'non rev' travel... and hey, non rev needed a list.
non-rev, terminal, arrival, takeoff, landing, taxi-ing, runway, IATA, plane, departure, airplane, jet and 106 more...
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-ess
words with the suffix -ess
goddess, giantess, enchantress, doctress, archeress, auditress, avengeress, buildress, butleress, captainess, cateress, championess and 106 more...
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INTERP - sexist language
Problematic and recommended terms according to the EP's guide on gender neutral language use
gender-neutral la..., biased, discriminatory, demeaning, political correct..., gender equality, gender neutrality, sexist language, masculine gender, inclusive form, generic form, discriminate agai... and 103 more...
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occupations
actor, actress, archaelogist, soldier, cook, lawyer, gardener, grocr, bank official, barman, barmaid, baber and 50 more...
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words mandilou hates
These are words I hate to say or hear or write, etc.
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hifi_del_norte's Words
vegetable, spatula, bang, fluctuate, carnage, simple, audio, hi-fi, empanada, bonnie, gazpacho, memoirs and 108 more...
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What Is the Sound of One Hand Typing?
Words you can type with one hand--if you learned how to type formally. Hunt-and-peck method doesn't count. ;-) I'm keeping it to five or more letters to avoid an excessively lengthy list.
<...racecar, start, create, desert, dessert, secret, secrete, sweet, tresses, poppy, puppy, homonym and 141 more...
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Now Boarding
airline, plane, aircraft, passenger, ticket, boarding pass, reservation, pilot, steward, stewardess, flight attendant, air hostess and 38 more...
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left-handed
words that are typed only with my left hand
ward, stew, war, tar, star, stewardess, steward, daft, art, dart, wart, fart and 46 more...
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