Stewardess
noun
A woman who takes care of passengers on a plane, often serving food and drink.
The stewardess came by with a cart of drinks.
Often appears as...
- flight stewardess
- air stewardess
noun
A woman who takes care of passengers on a ship, often by serving food and drink.
The stewardess on the cruise ship made sure we had everything we needed.
Often appears as...
- cruise stewardess
- ship stewardess
noun
A woman who takes care of passengers on a plane, often serving food and drink.
The stewardess came by with a cart of drinks.
Often appears as...
- flight stewardess
- air stewardess
noun
A woman who takes care of passengers on a ship, often by serving food and drink.
The stewardess on the cruise ship made sure we had everything we needed.
Often appears as...
- cruise stewardess
- ship stewardess
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Gender-Specific
The term 'stewardess' refers specifically to a female attendant; 'steward' is the male equivalent.
The stewardess, along with the steward, ensured a smooth flight.
Pro Tip 2/3Historical Usage
'Stewardess' used to be more common, but now 'flight attendant' is preferred for gender neutrality.
Back in the day, my aunt worked as a stewardess.
Pro Tip 3/3Service Role
A stewardess is often associated with service tasks such as serving food and drinks.
The stewardess prepared to serve the passengers their meals.
Pro Tip 1/3Gender-Specific
The term 'stewardess' refers specifically to a female attendant; 'steward' is the male equivalent.
The stewardess, along with the steward, ensured a smooth flight.
Pro Tip 2/3Historical Usage
'Stewardess' used to be more common, but now 'flight attendant' is preferred for gender neutrality.
Back in the day, my aunt worked as a stewardess.
Pro Tip 3/3Service Role
A stewardess is often associated with service tasks such as serving food and drinks.
The stewardess prepared to serve the passengers their meals.
Pro Tip 1/3Gender-Specific
The term 'stewardess' refers specifically to a female attendant; 'steward' is the male equivalent.
The stewardess, along with the steward, ensured a smooth flight.
Pro Tip 2/3Historical Usage
'Stewardess' used to be more common, but now 'flight attendant' is preferred for gender neutrality.
Back in the day, my aunt worked as a stewardess.
Pro Tip 3/3Service Role
A stewardess is often associated with service tasks such as serving food and drinks.
The stewardess prepared to serve the passengers their meals.
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The new science of...
In fact, if I had a measles cough right now, somebody in the back of this auditorium could get infected. And this has had very real-world consequences. Just a few months ago, an airline stewardess contracted measles on a flight,
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Robbery in the Sky PIPE...
gaze persuades her to open the envelope the note reads miss I have a bomb here and would like you to sit by me the shocked stewardess asks the man if he's serious
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The new science of...
In fact, if I had a measles cough right now, somebody in the back of this auditorium could get infected. And this has had very real-world consequences. Just a few months ago, an airline stewardess contracted measles on a flight,
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Robbery in the Sky PIPE...
gaze persuades her to open the envelope the note reads miss I have a bomb here and would like you to sit by me the shocked stewardess asks the man if he's serious
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Gayle King
American Entertainer
I can't stop watching 'Pan Am.' When I was growing up, my father worked as an engineer in Turkey, and we always flew Pan Am. The stewardesses were so glamorous! When they gave me a set of those golden wings, I felt very grown-up. Not only is the show's plot full of mystery and infidelity, they get the period details just right.
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Mary Daly
American Theologian
Patriarchy appears to be everywhere. Even outer space and the future have been colonized. As a rule, even the more imaginative science-fiction writers (allegedly the most foretelling futurists) cannot/will not create a space and time in which women get far beyond the role of space stewardess.
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Gilbert O'Sullivan
Irish Musician
My Norwegian wife Aase was a Pan Am stewardess back in the Seventies when we met. She was very attractive, and we became good friends, but I was travelling a lot and she was jetting back and forth across the Atlantic, so it was a while before we got together.
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John Travolta
American Actor
When I was 8, I got a little toy propeller plane: You could turn it on and the people disappeared from the little windows and stewardesses appeared, and it ran along the ground.
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Linda Evangelista
Canadian Model
Sure, I like my short hair. It also quadrupled my rate. I did get sick of seeing it on everybody, though - every stewardess, every salesclerk, and in every restaurant.
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Beck
American Musician
In Japan, you get on the bullet train or the airplane, and I loved the little speeches the stewardesses would do. They even do little speeches before you play gigs.
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Cathleen Schine
American Author
Stewardesses were a joke to many of us coming of age in the liberated Sixties. They were no joke in the women's movement that liberated us, however.
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Janis Joplin
American Singer
I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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Jason Bateman
American Actor
My father was a freelance writer/director/producer, and my mother was a stewardess for Pan-Am. It was very non-traditional.
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Patricia Ireland
American Activist
Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.
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Gayle King
American Entertainer
I can't stop watching 'Pan Am.' When I was growing up, my father worked as an engineer in Turkey, and we always flew Pan Am. The stewardesses were so glamorous! When they gave me a set of those golden wings, I felt very grown-up. Not only is the show's plot full of mystery and infidelity, they get the period details just right.
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Mary Daly
American Theologian
Patriarchy appears to be everywhere. Even outer space and the future have been colonized. As a rule, even the more imaginative science-fiction writers (allegedly the most foretelling futurists) cannot/will not create a space and time in which women get far beyond the role of space stewardess.
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Gilbert O'Sullivan
Irish Musician
My Norwegian wife Aase was a Pan Am stewardess back in the Seventies when we met. She was very attractive, and we became good friends, but I was travelling a lot and she was jetting back and forth across the Atlantic, so it was a while before we got together.
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John Travolta
American Actor
When I was 8, I got a little toy propeller plane: You could turn it on and the people disappeared from the little windows and stewardesses appeared, and it ran along the ground.
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Linda Evangelista
Canadian Model
Sure, I like my short hair. It also quadrupled my rate. I did get sick of seeing it on everybody, though - every stewardess, every salesclerk, and in every restaurant.
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Beck
American Musician
In Japan, you get on the bullet train or the airplane, and I loved the little speeches the stewardesses would do. They even do little speeches before you play gigs.
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Cathleen Schine
American Author
Stewardesses were a joke to many of us coming of age in the liberated Sixties. They were no joke in the women's movement that liberated us, however.
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Janis Joplin
American Singer
I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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Jason Bateman
American Actor
My father was a freelance writer/director/producer, and my mother was a stewardess for Pan-Am. It was very non-traditional.
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Patricia Ireland
American Activist
Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.
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