Definitions
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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Examples
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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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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.
Walls of Silence Philip Jolowicz 2002
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I called the stewardess and asked for another Coke.
Walls of Silence Philip Jolowicz 2002
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I called the stewardess and asked for another Coke.
Walls of Silence Philip Jolowicz 2002
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Here he was, spending money he might never get back to give her a chance, and she called the stewardess because he kissed her!
Love Stories Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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"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 Adventurous Seven Their Hazardous Undertaking Bessie Marchant 1901
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"The stewardess is taking a rest and cannot be disturbed."
Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days 1890
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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.
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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.
Film | guardian.co.uk Deborah Orr 2010
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