USHER
\ˈʌʃə], \ˈʌʃə], \ˈʌ_ʃ_ə]\
Definitions of USHER
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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someone employed to conduct others
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Irish prelate who deduced from the Bible that Creation occurred in the year 4004 BC (1581-1656)
By Princeton University
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someone employed to conduct others
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Irish prelate who deduced from the Bible that Creation occurred in the year 4004 BC (1581-1656)
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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An under teacher, or assistant master, in a school.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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An under teacher, or assistant master, in a school.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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A doorkeeper; hence, one who directs persons to seats in a church, theater, etc.
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To announce; show in.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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One whose business it is to introduce strangers or to walk before a person of rank: an under-teacher or assistant.
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To introduce: to forerun.
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USHERSHIP.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To attend as an usher; introduce.
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One who acts as doorkeeper, conducts persons to seats, etc.
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An under teacher.
By James Champlin Fernald
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An officer whose business is to introduce strangers, or to walk before a person of rank; an under-teacher or assistant in a school.
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To introduce as forerunner; to forerun.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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An inferior officer in some English courts of law; in Eng., a subordinate teacher in a school or academy.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. [Norman French , French] An officer or servant who has the care of the door of a court, hall, or the like; an officer whose business it is to introduce strangers, or to walk before a person of rank;—an under-teacher or assistant to the preceptor of a school.
