Usher
['ʌʃə] or ['ʌʃɚ]
Definition
(noun.) someone employed to conduct others.
(noun.) an official stationed at the entrance of a courtroom or legislative chamber.
(verb.) take (someone) to their seats, as in theaters or auditoriums; 'The usher showed us to our seats'.
Checked by Lemuel--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) An officer or servant who has the care of the door of a court, hall, chamber, or the like; hence, an officer whose business it is to introduce strangers, or to walk before a person of rank. Also, one who escorts persons to seats in a church, theater, etc.
(n.) An under teacher, or assistant master, in a school.
(v. t.) To introduce or escort, as an usher, forerunner, or harbinger; to forerun; -- sometimes followed by in or forth; as, to usher in a stranger; to usher forth the guests; to usher a visitor into the room.
Checker: Stan
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Sub-master, assistant teacher.
Checked by Jacques
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Herald, introduce, precede, announce
ANT:Follow, attend, succeed
Edited by Lelia
Definition
n. one who meets people at the door of a hall &c. and conducts them to seats an officer whose business it is to introduce strangers or to walk before a person of rank: an under-teacher or assistant.—v.t. to introduce: to forerun.—ns. Ush′erance; Ush′erdom Ush′ership.—adjs. Ushē′rian; Ush′erless.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
One who takes a leading part in a theatre.
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Examples
- No sun shall ever usher forth mine honours, Or gild again the noble hoofs that waited Upon my smiles. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- He had been usher in a school, and was said now to be tutor in a private family. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Pestilence will usher you to his presence. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Old Figs grew to be a name of kindness and endearment; and the sneak of an usher jeered at him no longer. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Let Gurth do thine office, Oswald, said Wamba with his usual effrontery; the swineherd will be a fit usher to the Jew. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Would you let the usher call you sister? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- In what fitting terms of wonder and delight, in what choice expression and soft flow of language, can I usher in the loveliest, wisest, best? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Ferguson remained outside, and the colonel ushered me in. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- He was ushered into the dining-room, where, doubtless, he speedily helped his rector to empty the decanters. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Our guide knocked, and then ushered us into the professor's bedroom. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- With those words, the clerk opened a door, and ushered me into an inner chamber at the back. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The lecturer unlocked the outer door and ushered us into his room. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Then I was being ushered into one of these boxes, and found myself saying something as I sat down, and people about me crying 'Silence! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- About six, I was ushered upstairs. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Mr. Lowten disappeared with a grin, and immediately returned ushering in the firm, in due form of precedence--Dodson first, and Fogg afterwards. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- After a calm winter, storms were ushering in the spring. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Riah went to open it, and presently came back, ushering in, with the grave and courteous air that sat so well upon him, a gentleman. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Ushering me in, he shut the door behind us. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The culprit is-- Mr. John Turner, cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Wise ushers avoid unnecessary interference with that lad. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- An arctic fauna, musk ox, woolly mammoth, woolly rhinoceros, lemming, ushers in the Pleistocene. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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