stewardess
noun
stew·ard·ess
ˈstü-ər-dəs 
ˈstyü-;
ˈst(y)u̇r-dəs
: a woman who performs the duties of a steward
especially
: one who attends passengers (as on an airplane)
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Viral video captured on March 5, 2023, showed Torres shouting while standing above his seat, before taking off into the plane's aisle and attacking a stewardess with a broken metal spoon.
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Greg Norman, FOXNews.com, 30 July 2025
For Sheldon, who had been born into a farming family in central Wisconsin before the Civil War, and for other women like her, the position of ship stewardess was a rare and, from the outside, glamorous chance to see the world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
—April White, JSTOR Daily, 21 July 2025
Paige Bell, a stewardess from Johannesburg, was identified as the victim by her family on social media.
—Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 10 July 2025
Both of her parents worked for the now-defunct pan-African airline Air Afrique—her father as a pilot and her mother as a stewardess, which afforded Diouf the chance to travel widely from a young age.
—Ugonnaora Owoh, Essence, 30 June 2025
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Greg Norman, FOXNews.com, 30 July 2025
For Sheldon, who had been born into a farming family in central Wisconsin before the Civil War, and for other women like her, the position of ship stewardess was a rare and, from the outside, glamorous chance to see the world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
—April White, JSTOR Daily, 21 July 2025
Paige Bell, a stewardess from Johannesburg, was identified as the victim by her family on social media.
—Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 10 July 2025
Both of her parents worked for the now-defunct pan-African airline Air Afrique—her father as a pilot and her mother as a stewardess, which afforded Diouf the chance to travel widely from a young age.
—Ugonnaora Owoh, Essence, 30 June 2025
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“Stewardess.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stewardess. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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stewardess
noun
stew·ard·ess
ˈst(y)ü-ərd-əs
ˈst(y)u̇(-ə)rd-
: a woman who does the job of a steward
especially
: one who attends the needs of passengers (as on an airplane)
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