usher
usher is a 5-letter English word with 7 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. 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.
- noun. An under teacher, or assistant master, in a school.
- transitive verb. 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.
- noun. someone employed to conduct others
- noun. an official stationed at the entrance of a courtroom or legislative chamber
- noun. Irish prelate who deduced from the Bible that Creation occurred in the year 4004 BC (1581-1656)
- verb. take (someone) to their seats, as in theaters or auditoriums
"The usher showed us to our seats"
Synonyms
guide, doorkeeper, ussher, show
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in usher:
Common word forms
ushers, ushered, usherer, ushering, usherless
Words from these letters
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