Maid vs Steward - What's the difference?
maid | steward |
(dated, or, poetic) A girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden.
A female servant or cleaner (short for maidservant).
* , title=The Mirror and the Lamp
, chapter=2 (archaic) A virgin of either gender.
* 1380+ , (Geoffrey Chaucer), (The Canterbury Tales)
* 1601 , (William Shakespeare), (Twelfth Night)
A person who manages the property or affairs for another entity.
A ship's officer who is in charge of making dining arrangements and provisions.
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*:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy. Mail bags, so I understand, are being put on board. Stewards , carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place.
A flight attendant, especially but not exclusively'' a male flight attendant. ''Often as "air steward", "airline steward", etc.
A union member who is selected as a representative for fellow workers in negotiating terms with management.
A person who has charge of buildings and/or grounds and/or animals.
A fiscal agent of certain bodies.
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In some colleges, an officer who provides food for the students and superintends the kitchen; also, an officer who attends to the accounts of the students.
In Scotland, a magistrate appointed by the crown to exercise jurisdiction over royal lands.
:(Erskine)
In information technology, somebody who is responsible for managing a set of projects, products or technologies and how they affect the IT organization to which they belong.
To act as the steward or caretaker of (something)
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=May 1, author=Richard G. Jones, title=An Acting Governor’s Balancing Act: Taking the Lead Without Stepping on Toes, work=New York Times
, passage=Assemblyman John S. Wisniewski, a Democrat from Middlesex County, said, “It’s an uncomfortable situation,” but added that Mr. Codey is nevertheless “ably stewarding the state.”}}
As a noun maid
is maiden.As a proper noun steward is
, a variant of stewart.maid
English
Noun
(en noun)- Note - maid is often used in the common or species names of flowering plants.
citation, passage=She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid , […]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.}}
- Crist was a mayde and shapen as a man.
- You are betrothed both to a maid and man.
Synonyms
* (young female person) damsel, maiden * (female servant) handmaiden, lady-in-waiting, maidservant * (female cleaner) chambermaid (in a hotel), charlady (in a house), charwoman (in a house)See also
* bridesmaid * French maid * maid of honour * mermaid * old maidAnagrams
* ----steward
English
(wikipedia steward)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (union member) (l) * (l), (l)Derived terms
* shop steward * stewardly * stewardry * understewardHyponyms
* stewardessVerb
(en verb)citation