English

Noun

flight attendant ‎(plural flight attendants)

1. A member of the crew (staff) of an airplane who is responsible for the comfort and safety of its passengers.

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.

Synonyms

• steward (usually male)

Hyponyms

• (male): steward; coffee moffie (South African, pejorative, slang)
• (female): stewardess; air hostess; sky girl (slang); hostie (Australian, slang); cart tart (pejorative, slang)
• (female or effeminate male): trolley dolly (pejorative, slang)

Hypernyms

• cabin crew

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