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The word seneschal (/ ˈ s ɛ n ə ʃ əl /) can have several different meanings, all of which reflect certain types of supervising or administering in a historic context.Most commonly, a seneschal was a senior position filled by a court appointment within a royal, ducal, or noble household during the Middle Ages and early Modern period – historically a steward or majordomo of a medieval ...
a wine steward. soupçon a very small amount. (In French, it can also mean "suspicion".) soupe du jour lit. "soup of the day", the particular kind of soup offered that day. succès d'estime lit. "success of esteem; critical success"; sometimes used pejoratively in English. [55]
A steward is an official who is appointed by the legal ruling monarch to represent them in a country and who may have a mandate to govern it in their name; in the latter case, it is synonymous with the position of regent, vicegerent, viceroy, king's lieutenant (for Romance languages), governor, or deputy (the Roman rector, praefectus, or vicarius).
The title of Lord High Steward of Ireland was first bestowed in 1446 upon the 1st Earl of Shrewsbury by way of letters patent from King Henry VI. He was named Earl of Waterford and granted the hereditary office of Lord High Steward, to be passed down through the male heirs of his line. [ 13 ]
An unpaired word is one that, according to the usual rules of the language, would appear to have a related word but does not. [1] Such words usually have a prefix or suffix that would imply that there is an antonym, with the prefix or suffix being absent or opposite.
Steward, another term for majordomo; Steward, an older term for a flight attendant; A member of the Steward's Department of a ship, responsible for preparation of food or caring for living quarters; Steward, United States Navy rate prior to 1975, now Culinary Specialist (US Navy) Union steward, a labor union official, also known as a shop steward
The lede defines "steward" as a type of governor/regent/viceroy, and says it is derived from the title of a household manager. But all the examples of jobs actually titled "steward" ( Lord Steward , Lord High Steward , Lord High Steward of Scotland ) are all either the original household manager, or something else entirely.
That's baloney. In fact, international flight crews, in parallel with ship crews, where the terms originated, very often have a single individual listed as "Steward", which would be roughly comparable to the term "Head Flight Attendant" in an operation that doesn't use the word "Steward".--chris. lawson 05:34, 7 January 2007 (UTC)