STEWARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does steward mean? 

• STEWARD (noun)
  The noun STEWARD has 5 senses:

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

4. a union member who is elected to represent fellow workers in negotiating with management

5. one having charge of buildings or grounds or animals

  Familiarity information: STEWARD used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STEWARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who manages property or other affairs for someone else

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("steward" is a kind of...):

fiduciary (a person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "steward"):

chamberlain (an officer who manages the household of a king or nobleman)

Derivation:

stewardship (the position of steward)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The ship's officer who is in charge of provisions and dining arrangements

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("steward" is a kind of...):

officer; ship's officer (a person authorized to serve in a position of authority on a vessel)

Derivation:

stewardship (the position of steward)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An attendant on an airplane

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

flight attendant; steward

Hypernyms ("steward" is a kind of...):

attendant; attender; tender (someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "steward"):

air hostess; hostess; stewardess (a woman steward on an airplane)

Derivation:

stewardship (the position of steward)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A union member who is elected to represent fellow workers in negotiating with management

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

shop steward; steward

Hypernyms ("steward" is a kind of...):

union representative (a representative for a labor union)

Derivation:

stewardship (the position of steward)

Sense 5

Meaning:

One having charge of buildings or grounds or animals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

custodian; keeper; steward

Hypernyms ("steward" is a kind of...):

defender; guardian; protector; shielder (a person who cares for persons or property)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "steward"):

caretaker (a custodian who is hired to take care of something (property or a person))

conservator; curator (the custodian of a collection (as a museum or library))

game warden; gamekeeper (a person employed to take care of game and wildlife)

greenskeeper (someone responsible for the maintenance of a golf course)

house sitter (a custodian who lives in and cares for a house while the regular occupant is away (usually without an exchange of money))

janitor (someone employed to clean and maintain a building)

lighthouse keeper (the keeper of a lighthouse)

critter sitter; pet sitter (someone left in charge of pets while their owners are away from home)

zoo keeper (the chief person responsible for a zoological garden)

Derivation:

stewardship (the position of steward)

 Context examples 

Is her husband, is the son of his late father's steward, to be his brother?

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Then, good archer, I am right glad to welcome you to Twynham Castle, and in the steward's room you will find provant for yourself and comrades.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Out of my experience with stewards on the Atlantic liners at the end of the voyage, I could have sworn he was waiting for his tip.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I presume that this Jim Browner, the steward of a Liverpool boat, is the man whom you suspect?

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To the right is the steward's house; he is a very respectable man.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Well, Miss Trotwood, said Mr. Wickfield; for I soon found that it was he, and that he was a lawyer, and steward of the estates of a rich gentleman of the county; what wind blows you here?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She fell into violent hysterics immediately, with such screams as reached your brother's ears, as he was sitting in his own dressing-room down stairs, thinking about writing a letter to his steward in the country.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

A letter from my steward tells me that my presence is wanted at home; and being disappointed in my hope of seeing the Marquis of Longtown and General Courteney here, some of my very old friends, there is nothing to detain me longer in Bath.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The meaner families who have children at these nurseries, are obliged, besides their annual pension, which is as low as possible, to return to the steward of the nursery a small monthly share of their gettings, to be a portion for the child; and therefore all parents are limited in their expenses by the law.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

In those days, climbing up the iron ladders out the pit of stifling heat, he had often caught glimpses of the passengers, in cool white, doing nothing but enjoy themselves, under awnings spread to keep the sun and wind away from them, with subservient stewards taking care of their every want and whim, and it had seemed to him that the realm in which they moved and had their being was nothing else than paradise.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)