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    usher
    /ˈʌʃə/

    noun

    • 1. a person who shows people to their seats, especially in a cinema or theatre or at a wedding.
    • 2. an assistant teacher. archaic

    verb

    • 1. show or guide (someone) somewhere: "a waiter ushered me to a table"
    • 2. cause or mark the start of something new: "the railways ushered in an era of cheap mass travel"

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    Learn the noun and verb meanings of usher, a word that can refer to a doorkeeper, an escort, or an introducer. See synonyms, examples, word history, and related phrases of usher.

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    noun. a person who escorts people to seats in a theater, church, etc. a person acting as an official doorkeeper, as in a courtroom or legislative chamber. a male attendant of a bridegroom at a wedding. an officer whose business it is to introduce strangers or to walk before a person of rank.

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    An usher is someone with the job of helping people find their seats. At the movies, ushers take your tickets and tell you where to go. At some theaters and sports venues, the ushers might actually take you to your seat — they usher you there.

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