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ush·er
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ˈʌʃ
ər
/
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-er
]
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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.
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a subordinate teacher or an assistant in a school.
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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.
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a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
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verb (used without object)
8.
to act as an usher:
He ushered at the banquet.
Origin:
1350–1400;
Middle English
uscher
doorkeeper <
Anglo-French
usser,
Old French
(
h
)
uissier
doorman, officer of justice <
Vulgar Latin
*ustiārius,
equivalent to
Latin
ōsti
(
um
) door +
-ārius
-ary
;
see
-er
2
Related forms
ush·er·ship,
noun
un·der·ush·er,
noun
un·ush·ered,
adjective
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