usher in

1. 1.

   be a precursor of

   “The fall of the Berlin Wall ushered in the post-Cold War period”

   Synonymsinaugurateintroduce

   Broaderbegin

Questions about usher in

What does usher in mean?

usher in means "be a precursor of".

What is another word for usher in?

Close synonyms include inaugurate, introduce. 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 in a common word?

usher in is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.