flight attendant
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3.2
- noun
- /flaɪt əˈtɛndənt/
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auxiliar de vuelo
- Before takeoff, the flight attendant demonstrated the safety procedures to all passengers.
- instructions from flight attendants
- female flight attendants
Let's talk about the way some passengers treat flight attendants.
- Let's talk about the way some passengers treat flight attendants.
- So the flight attendant walks up to me and he goes Zana jazzy, huh?
- I will say though, I constantly see on Twitter stuff where gays are like, oh, the flight attendant gave me a free blah, blah, blah.
- I get on and it's just all Korean and beautiful people, you know, especially the flight attendants, man.
- You know, when I'm on an airline, that flight attendant, that gate agent, that is the airline to me.
- Yeah, no one really, you know, they didn't want to look me in the eye because they saw the shirt when I when I got on the plane, the male flight attendant said.
- But like I am not a great flyer though I fly a lot and I always choose the seat close enough to the flight attendant because I just want to see how they're doing.
- OK, when we were on the plane the last time I heard this guy asked the flight attendant, he said, well, my seats not next to my wife's.
Examples
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I'll be your flight attendant.
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Flight attendants, take your seats for departure.
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We had the greatest flight attendant ever, right, on the flight from from LA to London.
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Do not remove it unless directed by a flight attendant.
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"We really feel bad about this," a flight attendant said quietly.
Fiction book (1994) -
And we had some flight attendants from an airline help us out and they were awesome.
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Trained by Vision in London, she had been a flight attendant with the airline for three years.
Fiction book (1998) -
Flight attendants, prepare for landing.
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Flight attendants, prepare for departure.
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Our wonderful flight attendants are doing one last round of refreshments, and make sure you enjoy the tail end of this flight.
Synonyms
136
2.8
A person who serves or helps people in a public place
62
4.6
A woman who works on an airplane and looks after passengers
13
3.8
A person who serves and looks after passengers on a ship or plane
7
5.3
A woman who looks after passengers on an airplane
1
2.2
A woman who looks after passengers on a plane
A man who helps passengers on a plane and keeps them safe and comfortable
An informal word for a person who serves food and drinks on a plane
How Formal
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from 'flight' (an airplane journey) + 'attendant' (a person who assists or serves); a B1 learner who knows both words can infer it denotes a person who looks after passengers on a flight. This straightforward noun–noun composition is a common, literal pattern cross-linguistically, so the sense is immediately comprehensible without special cultural knowledge.
Etymology
Flight attendant comes from flight ('a plane trip') and attendant ('a person who looks after others'), giving the image of someone walking the aisle to help passengers. So, the phrase means 'a person whose job is to look after passengers and keep them safe during a plane trip'.