stewardess

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: stew=ard=ess

CIDE DICTIONARY

stewardess, n. 

 A female steward; specifically, a woman employed in passenger vessels to attend to the wants of female passengers.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

stewardess, n. a female steward, esp. on a ship or aircraft.

THESAURUS

stewardess

Ganymede, Hebe, aerial photographer, aircrew, aircrewman, airline hostess, airline stewardess, attendant, avigator, bakehead, batman, bellboy, bellhop, bellman, belly gunner, black gang, boilerman, bombardier, bootblack, boots, bungs, cabin boy, caddie, chips, chore boy, commissary steward, complement, copyboy, crew, crew chief, cupbearer, deckhand, deckie, errand boy, errand girl, fireman, flight attendant, flight crew, footboy, gofer, gun loader, gunner, hand, hospital steward, hostess, landing signalman, machine gunner, mail orderly, meteorologist, navigator, office boy, office girl, oiler, orderly, page, purser, radio operator, roustabout, snip, snips, sparks, squire, steward, stoker, tender, torpedoman, trainbearer, usher, watch, yeoman

ROGET THESAURUS

stewardess

Mariner

N sailor, mariner, navigator, seaman, seafarer, seafaring man, dock walloper, tar, jack tar, salt, able seaman, A, B, man-of-war's man, bluejacket, galiongee, galionji, marine, jolly, midshipman, middy, skipper, shipman, boatman, ferryman, waterman, lighterman, bargeman, longshoreman, bargee, gondolier, oar, oarsman, rower, boatswain, cockswain, coxswain, steersman, pilot, crew, aerial navigator, aeronaut, balloonist, Icarus, aeroplanist, airman, aviator, birdman, man-bird, wizard of the air, aviatrix, flier, pilot, test pilot, glider pilot, bush pilot, navigator, flight attendant, steward, stewardess, crew, astronaut, cosmonaut, parachutist, paratrooper.