Usher


noun
1.
a person who escorts people to seats in a theater, church, etc.
2.
a person acting as an official doorkeeper, as in a courtroom or legislative chamber.
3.
a male attendant of a bridegroom at a wedding.
4.
an officer whose business it is to introduce strangers or to walk before a person of rank.
5.
British Archaic. a subordinate teacher or an assistant in a school.
verb (used with object)
6.
to act as an usher to; lead, introduce, or conduct:
She ushered them to their seats.
7.
to attend or bring at the coming or beginning; precede or herald (usually followed by in):
to usher in the new theater season.
verb (used without object)
8.
to act as an usher:
He ushered at the banquet.
noun
1.
James, Ussher, James.
noun
1.
James, 1581–1656, Irish prelate and scholar.
noun
1.
an official who shows people to their seats, as in a church or theatre
2.
a person who acts as doorkeeper, esp in a court of law
3.
(in England) a minor official charged with maintaining order in a court of law
4.
an officer responsible for preceding persons of rank in a procession or introducing strangers at formal functions
5.
(Brit, obsolete) a teacher
verb (transitive)
6.
to conduct or escort, esp in a courteous or obsequious way
7.
(usually foll by in) to be a precursor or herald (of)
noun
1.
a variant spelling of (James) Ussher
noun
1.
James. 1581–1656, Irish prelate and scholar. His system of biblical chronology, which dated the creation at 4004 bc, was for long accepted

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