": an officer or servant who has the care of the door of a court, hall, or chamber":[],
": an officer who walks before a person of rank":[],
": one who escorts persons to their seats (as in a theater)":[],
": to cause to enter : introduce":[
"a new theory ushered into the world"
],
": to conduct to a place":[],
": to precede as an usher, forerunner, or harbinger":[],
": to serve as an usher":[
"usher at a wedding"
]
},
"examples":[
"Verb",
"He ushered them to their seats.",
"A nurse ushered us into the hospital room.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Goldring, an 82-year-old opera enthusiast, has been standing in the same spot for most of her time as an usher , watching decades of seasons from her perch in the Dress Circle. \u2014 New York Times , 13 June 2022",
"Mike remembers skipping class in high school to go to games, and Kristen used to work as an usher . \u2014 Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun , 11 Apr. 2022",
"If someone tried to snap a shot quickly, an aggressive usher would swat his or her hand over the lens of their iPhone. Cannes handed out its honorary Palme d\u2019Or to Forest Whitaker, who was feted with a tribute during the opening ceremony. \u2014 Elsa Keslassy, Variety , 17 May 2022",
"As a member of Full Gospel True Mission Church, Mr. Harris served on the usher board, was soloist with the choir, taught Sunday school and was an active member of the brotherhood. \u2014 Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Melania Trump held firm, backed by her spokeswoman, Stephanie Grisham, and the White House's chief usher , Timothy Harleth. \u2014 Catherine Garcia, The Week , 15 July 2021",
"Ten years later, Dominican dembow is neck-deep in a contemporary revival and progressive usher into the mainstream\u2014but women and nonbinary artists are being left out. \u2014 Marjua Estevez, refinery29.com , 24 Mar. 2022",
"That doesn\u2019t count as fully vaccinated, so the usher directed the man to the testing center on the northeast corner of Chase. \u2014 Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Also worrisome is the lack of experienced people to design and usher through such projects, along with a shortage of skilled workers to build them. \u2014 Michael Smolenscolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune , 23 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The United States helped usher China into the World Trade Organization in 2001 in a bid to bring its economic behavior \u2014 and, some officials hoped, its political system \u2014 more in line with the West. \u2014 New York Times , 22 Mar. 2022",
"Summer travel plans are well into the developmental stage and will soon usher tourists in droves toward popular Western hot spots that continue to obliterate previous attendance records. \u2014 J.d. Simkins, Sunset Magazine , 26 May 2022",
"Biden's ability to usher the nation back to some semblance of normality has always been a key measure of his success. \u2014 Julian Zelizer, CNN , 20 May 2022",
"Meanwhile, host Rutledge Wood is back to usher a whole new group of players through the hot lava. \u2014 Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com , 9 May 2022",
"Volunteer escorts showed up to usher patients past the activists who arrive each day to discourage women from going inside. \u2014 New York Times , 3 May 2022",
"Some experts have described the different conditions that will need to be met in order to usher the United States safely into a post-pandemic era. \u2014 Justin Raystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 4 Apr. 2022",
"Right now, though, a permanent imbalance will settle in \u2013 162 regular-season games to ultimately usher average teams into October and potentially push great ones into a best-of-three dogfight. \u2014 Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY , 11 Mar. 2022",
"Coleman is among the young women and mothers who have emerged to usher the antiabortion movement into its next phase. \u2014 Washington Post , 21 Jan. 2022"
],
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"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
"1588, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb"
},
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"Middle English ussher , from Anglo-French ussier, usscher , from Vulgar Latin *ustiarius doorkeeper, from Latin ostium, ustium door, mouth of a river \u2014 more at ostium":"Noun"
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"first_known_use":{
"circa 1600, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-000746"
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"noun"
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": a girl or woman who is an usher":[]
},
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"\u02cc\u0259-sh\u0259-\u02c8ret"
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Violet King, an usherette tasked with overseeing the row in which the couple was seated, pocketed the discarded cigar and preserved it as a reminder of her brush with the revered British politician. \u2014 Meilan Solly, Smithsonian , 18 Oct. 2019"
],
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"first_known_use":{
"1921, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-055645"
},
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"noun"
],
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-075843"
},
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"verb"
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],
": to mark or observe the beginning of":[
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]
},
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"circa 1600, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-093520"
},
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"adjective"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-102654"
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},
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"examples":[],
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},
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"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-031512"
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"Ushuaia":{
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],
"definitions":{
"town in southern Argentina on the southern coast of Tierra del Fuego Island population 57,000":[]
