airline steward
English
Noun
airline steward (plural airline stewards)
- A male flight attendant.
- Synonyms: air host (UK), air steward, steward
- Coordinate term: airline stewardess
- 1987, Randy Shilts, And the Band Played On, Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, page 79:
- A few days later, Gaetan cajoled an airline steward friend to go with him to St. Vincent's to visit an old trick.
References
- “airline steward, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.