usher
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1. usher - Noun
2. usher - Verb
3. Usher - Proper noun
Meaning
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.
An under teacher, or assistant master, in a school.
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.
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The usher showed us to our seats
“A bigger Biden win would usher in a bigger Democratic majority,” Sabato said.
Afterwards, the King is announced by the usher in the country's three official languages: le Roi – de Koning – der König.
After a sustained spell of pressure, Bitton does well to usher Kennedy out of play.
After years of trying the Labour Party had convinced the electorate that they would usher in a new age of prosperity—their policies, organisation and tone of optimism slotting perfectly into place.
A lot of people have given their liberty or their lives to usher in Brazilian democracy, and I feel an obligation to them and just to my own values and my own profession not to flee Brazil, but to stay and defend democratic values that are under attack.