flight attendant
English
Noun
flight attendant (plural flight attendants)
- A member of the crew of an airplane who is responsible for the comfort and safety of its passengers.
- Synonyms: steward (usually male), cabin attendant
Usage notes
The term flight attendant is somewhat less common than the older, gender-specific term stewardess, but is often preferred due to its gender-neutral nature. Another common approach is to treat steward (or, for clarity's sake, a construction such as air steward or flight steward) as a gender-neutral term.
Hypernyms
Hyponyms
- (male): steward; coffee moffie (South African, pejorative, slang); air host
- (female): stewardess; air hostess; sky girl (slang); hostie (Australian, slang); cart tart (pejorative, slang); trolley dolly (pejorative, slang)
- (female or effeminate male): trolley dolly (pejorative, slang)
Translations
member of the crew of an airplane who is responsible for the comfort and safety of its passengers
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