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STEWARD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
One having charge of buildings or grounds or animals
Synonyms:
Classified under:
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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A union member who is elected to represent fellow workers in negotiating with management
Synonyms:
shop steward; steward
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("steward" is a kind of...):
union representative (a representative for a labor union)
Derivation:
stewardship (the position of steward)
Sense 3
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 4
Meaning:
An attendant on an airplane
Synonyms:
flight attendant; steward
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
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 5
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)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb steward
Context examples:
The housekeeper came forward, and told them it was a picture of a young gentleman, the son of her late master's steward, who had been brought up by him at his own expense.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
And here at my elbow is another portrait, taken at Liverpool, of your younger sister, in the company of a man who appears to be a steward by his uniform.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There is Lord Neville, Sir Stephen Cossington, and Sir Matthew Gourney, with Sir Walter Huet, Sir Thomas Banaster, and Sir Thomas Felton, who is the brother of the high steward.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Mrs. Norris could not help thinking that some steady old thing might be found among the numbers belonging to the Park that would do vastly well; or that one might be borrowed of the steward; or that perhaps Dr.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
His guilt and his descent appear by your account to be the same, said Elizabeth angrily; for I have heard you accuse him of nothing worse than of being the son of Mr. Darcy's steward, and of that, I can assure you, he informed me himself.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
We had learned of the existence of this steward, an impulsive man, of strong passions—you remember that he threw up what must have been a very superior berth in order to be nearer to his wife—subject, too, to occasional fits of hard drinking.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But there are ale, mead, and wine in the buttery, and the steward a merry rogue, who will not haggle over a quart or two.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Tom Bertram had of late spent so little of his time at home that he could be only nominally missed; and Lady Bertram was soon astonished to find how very well they did even without his father, how well Edmund could supply his place in carving, talking to the steward, writing to the attorney, settling with the servants, and equally saving her from all possible fatigue or exertion in every particular but that of directing her letters.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
He acknowledged the truth of it all, and said that business with his steward had occasioned his coming forward a few hours before the rest of the party with whom he had been travelling.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
On inquiry, I found that there was a steward on board of the name of James Browner and that he had acted during the voyage in such an extraordinary manner that the captain had been compelled to relieve him of his duties.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
