Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

stewardii

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: stew-ardii
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

plural of stewardess

Humorous

Example Sentences

""He's flying all over, all the time. He must have met two thousand stewardesses." "Stewardii," Einstein corrected me."
"Doc still had to edge his way past a line of "B₁₂"-deficient customers which already stretched back to the parking lot, beachtown housewives of a certain melancholy index, actors with casting calls to show up at, deeply tanned geezers looking ahead to an active day of schmoozing in the sun, stewardii just in off some high-stress red-eye [...]."
"'Attendant' sounds like something a horse would have. Or a bathroom. We were stewardesses. Or stewardii, as I preferred."

Etymology

From steward(ess) + -ii, facetiously after the Latin second-declension plural of words in -ius.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: steward

Usage

Humorous

Questions

What does stewardii mean?: plural of stewardess
Where does stewardii come from?: From steward(ess) + -ii, facetiously after the Latin second-declension plural of words in -ius.

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