Well too bad you're gonna get it! Strap on your learning pants!
You're probably sitting over there thinking it has something to do with STEW and ARD. Stew being a delicious hearty soup and ARD being a pejorative intensifier. Meaning something like, 'way too much nasty soup!'
No. You're wrong. Steward doesn't mean that.
It's more like STE- and -WARD. And the 'ste' comes from 'stig' which means house or hall. And the ward means ward which is related to the word 'guard'. So it's a 'house ward' somebody who runs the house, typically like a large estate where there are lots of servants and staff and such.
I do not wish to be an adventurer or explorer or conqueror! The people who would use the world up. I wish only to be a steward. To look after what came before me and leave it for the people who will come after.
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