Usually means: Guide, assist in finding seats.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. usher: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. usher: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. usher: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. usher: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Usher, usher: Vocabulary.com
  6. Usher, usher: Wordnik
  7. usher: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Usher, usher: Wiktionary
  9. usher: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. usher: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. usher: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. usher: Dictionary.com
  13. usher (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. usher: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Usher (album), Usher (entertainer), Usher (fragrance), Usher (musician), Usher (occupation), Usher (singer), Usher (software), Usher (surname), Usher: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Usher: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. usher: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. usher: Rhymezone
  19. usher: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. usher: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. usher: Free Dictionary
  22. usher: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Usher, usher: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. usher: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. Usher: Who2
  26. usher: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Usher (disambiguation), usher: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Usher (disambiguation), usher: Encyclopedia

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  1. USHER: Acronym Finder
  2. usher: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  A person, in a church, cinema etc., who escorts people to their seats.
▸ noun:  A male escort at a wedding.
▸ noun:  A doorkeeper in a courtroom.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) An assistant to a head teacher or schoolteacher; an assistant teacher.
▸ noun:  (dated, derogatory) Any schoolteacher.
▸ verb:  To guide people to their seats.
▸ verb:  To accompany or escort (someone).
▸ verb:  (figuratively) To precede; to act as a forerunner or herald.
▸ verb:  (figuratively, transitive) To lead or guide somewhere.
▸ noun:  A surname originating as an occupation for an usher.
▸ noun:  A suburb of Bunbury, Western Australia.

Similar:
guide, doorkeeper, show, acher, usherer, escort, escortee, seatholder, verger, pew-opener, more...

Types:
doorman, bouncer, ticket taker, coat checker, more...

Phrases:
usher in, gentleman usher, Usher syndrome, james usher, yeoman usher, more...

Adjectives:
chief, old, gentleman, senear, learned, young, first, classical, poor, second, present

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    maroon,     burgundy,     gold,     black,     silver,     charcoal,     plum,     emerald,     teal,     crimson


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Similar:
guide, doorkeeper, show, acher, usherer, escort, escortee, seatholder, verger, pew-opener, more...

Types:
doorman, bouncer, ticket taker, coat checker, more...

Phrases:
usher in, gentleman usher, Usher syndrome, james usher, yeoman usher, usher syndromes, usher raymond, Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, usher out, usher (disambiguation), usher of the black rod, more...

Adjectives:
chief, old, gentleman, senear, learned, young, first, classical, poor, second, present

Colors:
    maroon,     burgundy,     gold,     black,     silver,     charcoal,     plum,     emerald,     teal,     crimson



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