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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 Source: Internet

“A bigger Biden win would usher in a bigger Democratic majority,” Sabato said. Source: Internet

Afterwards, the King is announced by the usher in the country's three official languages: le Roi – de Koning – der König. Source: Internet

After a sustained spell of pressure, Bitton does well to usher Kennedy out of play. Source: Internet

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. Source: Internet

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. Source: Internet

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