usher

1. 1.

   take (someone) to their seats, as in theaters or auditoriums

   “The usher showed us to our seats”

   Synonymsshow

   Broaderlead

   Narrowermarshal

Other forms of usher

plural

ushers·

past tense

usherred·

present participle

usherring·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about usher

What does usher mean?

usher means "Irish prelate who deduced from the Bible that Creation occurred in the year 4004 BC (1581-1656)". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in usher?

usher has 2 syllables: us-her. The stress falls on "us". In IPA it is /ˈʌʃɚ/.

What is another word for usher?

Close synonyms include Ussher, James Ussher, James Usher, doorkeeper, guide. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is usher a common word?

usher is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.