Definitions for ushers

ushers ush·er

Spelling: [uhsh-er]
IPA: /ˈʌʃ ər/

Ushers is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 75 anagrams from letters in ushers (ehrssu).

Definitions for ushers

noun

  1. a person who escorts people to seats in a theater, church, etc.
  2. a person acting as an official doorkeeper, as in a courtroom or legislative chamber.
  3. a male attendant of a bridegroom at a wedding.
  4. an officer whose business it is to introduce strangers or to walk before a person of rank.
  5. British Archaic. a subordinate teacher or an assistant in a school.

verb (used with object)

  1. to act as an usher to; lead, introduce, or conduct:
  2. to attend or bring at the coming or beginning; precede or herald (usually followed by in):

verb (used without object)

  1. to act as an usher:

Origin of ushers

1350-1400; Middle English uscher doorkeeper Anglo-French usser, Old French (h)uissier doorman, officer of justice Vulgar Latin *ustiārius, equivalent to Latin ōsti(um) door + -ārius Examples for ushers

But it was merely the ushers opening a passage for the cortege.

The bridegroom and the ushers, in that case, are all in full dress uniform.

The many young women, acting as ushers, were devoted to her and eager to serve her.

Their garb lent them either the gravitas the Republican bench has previously lacked, or the doleful aspect of ushers at a funeral.

Dissatisfaction on the home front necessitates a showdown that ushers in a desired new order.

She will have to know me because Gay helped furnish her apartment and was one of her ushers.

She goes to the door and ushers in a tall, handsome man, impeccably put together.

Ted Lindsay, Reggie Sinclair, and Marty Pavelich of the Red Wings, were ushers, and Ted's wife, Pat, was matron of honor.

If the ushers were to be believed, the discussion was likely to go on interminably.

ushers passed around little pieces of paper on which congregants could inscribe messages of support to victims of sexual abuse.

Word Value for ushers
Scrable

9

Words with friends

9

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