Other forms: stewards
A steward is somebody who looks after property or serves passengers. The estate steward, a cabin steward, race stewards.
The oldest sense is management of somebody else's property, and stewardship has become the standard word for holding something in trust for the future. At a race meeting the stewards are the officials who enforce the rules. The Old English means hall-keeper.
1nounstewardSomebody who looks after property or serves passengers.
“The steward brought blankets to the passengers as the ship sailed through the night.”
steward is a job.
Old English stigweard means keeper of the hall, from stig, a house or hall, plus weard, a guardian.
Old English
stiġweard — steward, housekeeper, one who has the superintendence of household affairs, guardian
Middle English
steward
English, today
steward
Built from
From Middle English steward, stiward, from Old English stiġweard (“steward, housekeeper, one who has the superintendence of household affairs, guardian”), from stiġ (“a wooden enclosure; house, hall”) + weard (“ward, guard, guardian, keeper”), equivalent to sty + ward. Compare Icelandic stívarður (“steward”). More at sty, ward.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA