Dictionary Entry
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.
5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 8 · 7 senses
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- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
An under teacher, or assistant master, in a school.
- 3transitive 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.
- 4noun
someone employed to conduct others
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- 5noun
an official stationed at the entrance of a courtroom or legislative chamber
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- 6noun
Irish prelate who deduced from the Bible that Creation occurred in the year 4004 BC (1581-1656)
- 7verb
take (someone) to their seats, as in theaters or auditoriums
"The usher showed us to our seats"
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