steward

noun

/ˈstjuː.əːd//ˈstu.ɚd/US

Etymology

From Middle English steward, stiward, from Old English stiġweard (“steward, housekeeper, one who has the superintendence of household affairs, guardian”), from stiġ (“a wooden enclosure; house, hall”) + weard (“ward, guard, guardian, keeper”), equivalent to sty + ward. Compare Icelandic stívarður (“steward”). More at sty, ward.

inherited from stiġweard
inherited from steward

Definitions

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.
3
A flight attendant, especially male.
- The gay Kibbutzniks I met were all ex-Kibbutzniks who were curretly holding jobs as El-Al stewards or in some similarly classic gay professions.
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1. A union member who is selected as a representative for fellow workers in negotiating…
  A union member who is selected as a representative for fellow workers in negotiating terms with management.
2. A person who has charge of buildings, grounds, or animals.
3. Someone responsible for organizing an event
4. A bartender.
5. 8
  A fiscal agent of certain bodies.
  - a steward in a Methodist church
6. A junior assistant in a Masonic lodge.
7. An officer who provides food for the students and superintends the kitchen
  An officer who provides food for the students and superintends the kitchen; also, an officer who attends to the accounts of the students.
8. 11
  A magistrate appointed by the crown to exercise jurisdiction over royal lands.
  - These lands must have been retained by some earlier Steward, perhaps Walter II (1204-41), when most of Erskine had been made into a fief for Henry, first known ancestor of the Erskine family.
9. Somebody who is responsible for managing a set of projects, products or technologies and…
  Somebody who is responsible for managing a set of projects, products or technologies and how they affect the IT organization to which they belong.
10. A person who is responsible for the arbitration of incidents at a motor racing event and…
  A person who is responsible for the arbitration of incidents at a motor racing event and determining whether or not fines or penalties should be issued for such incidents.
11. A person who exercises responsible and caring administration of something
  A person who exercises responsible and caring administration of something; a person who exhibits stewardship.
12. 15
  To act as the steward or caretaker of (something)
  - Assemblyman John S. Wisniewski, a Democrat from Middlesex County, said, “It’s an uncomfortable situation,” but added that Mr. Codey is nevertheless “ably stewarding the state.”
13. An English surname originating as an occupation, a variant of Stewart.
14. A village in Lee County, Illinois, United States.

The neighborhood

neighborflight attendantmember of a flight crew

Derived

airline steward, air steward, bar steward, bread-steward, shop steward, slip steward, Steward, stewardish, stewardism, stewardless, stewardlike, stewardly, stewardry, stewardship, stewardsman, Stewart, stewartry, under-steward, wine steward

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at steward. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at steward. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at steward

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA