EGAVE

usher

About 1.38 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A person, in a church, cinema etc., who escorts people to their seats.
  2. noun A male escort at a wedding.
  3. noun A doorkeeper in a courtroom.
  4. noun An assistant to a head teacher or schoolteacher; an assistant teacher.
  5. noun Any schoolteacher.
  6. verb To guide people to their seats.
  7. verb To accompany or escort (someone).
  8. verb To precede; to act as a forerunner or herald.

Similar words

guide doorkeeper show assistant escort gentleman marshal bailiff officer herald

Often followed by

in of and to at was the syndrome him

Word family

ushered ushering ushers

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