USHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Usher mean? 

• USHER (noun)
  The noun USHER has 3 senses:

1. Irish prelate who deduced from the Bible that Creation occurred in the year 4004 BC (1581-1656)

2. an official stationed at the entrance of a courtroom or legislative chamber

3. someone employed to conduct others

  Familiarity information: USHER used as a noun is uncommon.

• USHER (verb)
  The verb USHER has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: USHER used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• USHER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Irish prelate who deduced from the Bible that Creation occurred in the year 4004 BC (1581-1656)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

James Usher; James Ussher; Usher; Ussher

Instance hypernyms:

archpriest; hierarch; high priest; prelate; primate (a senior clergyman and dignitary)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An official stationed at the entrance of a courtroom or legislative chamber

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

doorkeeper; usher

Hypernyms ("usher" is a kind of...):

functionary; official (a worker who holds or is invested with an office)

Derivation:

usherette (a female usher)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Someone employed to conduct others

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

guide; usher

Hypernyms ("usher" is a kind of...):

escort (an attendant who is employed to accompany someone)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "usher"):

usherette (a female usher)

Derivation:

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

usherette (a female usher)

• USHER (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they usher    ... he / she / it ushers   
Past simple: ushered   
Past participle: ushered   
-ing form: ushering   

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

show; usher

Context example:

The usher showed us to our seats

Hypernyms (to "usher" is one way to...):

conduct; direct; guide; lead; take (take somebody somewhere)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "usher"):

marshal (lead ceremoniously, as in a procession)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

usher (someone employed to conduct others)

 Context examples 

He immediately went into the passage, opened the front door, and ushered her in himself.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Ferguson remained outside, and the colonel ushered me in.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Our guide knocked, and then ushered us into the professor’s bedroom.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mutation of the gene is associated with deafness autosomal recessive type 12 and Usher syndrome types 1D, 3 and 1 D/F.

(CDH23 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

The solemn butler knew and welcomed him; he was subjected to no stage of delay, but ushered direct from the door to the dining-room where Dr. Lanyon sat alone over his wine.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

With all the state which a butler and foot-boy could give, Mr Elliot was ushered into the room.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

She opened the packet; it was too surely so;—a note from Mrs. Weston to herself, ushered in the letter from Frank to Mrs. Weston.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

This gene is a potential candidate gene for retinitis pigmentosa and Usher syndrome type II.

(Phosducin, NCI Thesaurus/LocusLink)

I was prevented from disclaiming the compliment (if I should have done so, in any case), by the entrance of Agnes, now ushered in by Mr. Micawber.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Grant, who was anxious to pay his respects to Sir Thomas, and at rather an early hour they were ushered into the breakfast-room, where were most of the family.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)