Word Finder - usher

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A person, in a church, cinema etc., who escorts people to their seats.

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A male escort at a wedding.

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A doorkeeper in a courtroom.

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An assistant to a head teacher or schoolteacher; an assistant teacher.

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Any schoolteacher.

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To guide people to their seats.

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To accompany or escort (someone).

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To precede; to act as a forerunner or herald.

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To lead or guide somewhere

He became usher of a grammar school in Leicestershire; he resided as a.

Renan was occupied as usher only in the evenings.

The bullfrogs trump to usher in the night, and the note of the whip-poor-will is borne on the rippling wind from over the water.

The Greek Chares held the position of chief usher (do-ayy€Aeus).

See Usher Parsons, Life of Sir William Pepperrell, Bart.

He went to school at Colchester and Maidstone, and in 1849 he became usher at a school in Newmarket.

At length the day dawned which, according to the prophecies, was to usher in the terrestrial paradise.

The date of publication is, however, fixed as 1617 by a letter from Sir Henry Bourchier to Usher, dated December 6, 1617, containing the passage- " Our kind friend, Mr Briggs, hath lately published a supplement to the most excellent tables of logarithms, which I presume he has sent to you."

For a few months he was usher at a boarding school at Blackheath, but on the 26th of September 1760 he became perpetual curate of New Brentford, the incumbency of which his father had purchased for him, and he retained its scanty profits until 1773.

If you can't find them tell the usher.

It is with almost rabid pleasure that we usher you into our presence once more.

Contemporary artists like Usher continue this heritage with their hip-hop videos.

The ministers refused to take the Oath of Supremacy without the qualification suggested by Usher.

The so-called era of the creation of the world is therefore a purely conventional and arbitrary epoch; practically, it means the year 4004 B.C., - this being the date which, under the sanction of Archbishop Usher's opinion, won its way, among its hundreds of competitors, into general acceptance.

At the grammar school, founded in the reign of Henry VIII., but occupying modern buildings, Eugene Aram was usher.

During his residence in Wales a hyper-Calvinistic work entitled A Body of Divinity; or the Sum and Substance of the Christian Religion, was published under his name by John Downham; and, although he repudiated the authorship in a letter to the editor, stating that the manuscript from which it was printed was merely a commonplace-book into which he had transcribed the opinions of Cartwright and other English divines, often disapproving of them and finding them dissonant from his own judgment, yet it has been persistently cited ever since as Usher's genuine work, and as lending his authority to positions which he had long abandoned, if he ever maintained them.

I do the usher thing, and it would appear that I look quite dashing in wedding garb.

The chancellor of the order is the chief secretary to the lord lieutenant of Ireland, and the king of arms is Ulster King of Arms; Black Rod is the usher.

In 1655 Usher published his last work, De Graeca LXX Interpretum Versione Syntagma.

Usher, of an annuity of 200£., on lands formerly appertaining to Fras.

The liveried usher escorted me to the front where the Judge hunched over the table like a weathered gargoyle.

In 1833 the government of Earl Grey conferred upon him the office known as yeoman usher of the exchequer, to which were attached apartments in Palace Yard, where he died on the 7th of April 1836.

The parliament having gained the ascendancy, Hale signed the Solemn League and Covenant, and was a member of the famous assembly of divines at Westminster in 1644; but although he would undoubtedly have preferred a Presbyterian form of church government, he had no serious objection to the system of modified Episcopacy proposed by Usher.

He was descended from the house of Nevill, one of whose scions, accompanying John Plantagenet to Ireland in the capacity of usher in 1185, adopted his official title as a surname.

James Usher was sent to a school in Dublin opened by two political agents of James VI.

All Usher's property in Ireland was lost to him through the rebellion, except his books and some plate and furniture, but he was assigned the temporalities of the vacant see of Carlisle for his support.

As long as the Watchers could keep the Others from tampering with their fates, both children would fulfill their paths and usher in a new phase of the war between good and evil.

Then comes the official tenth anniversary concert at the Usher Hall on 17 September.

Inside, elderly men with tartan trousers usher you toward a wide selection of major artworks from early Renaissance to late impressionism.

The proletariat, the party and the state provided a holy trinity of centralized power that would usher in a socialist nirvana.

Oldham the poet was for three years an usher under John Shepherd, who was appointed schoolmaster in 1675.

I had a beautiful three-piece Frank Usher outfit, with a pink hat, bag and shoes.

According to Islamic narrations, Jesus is the last prophet who will eradicate unbelief and usher in the final hour.

George Cavendish was gentleman usher to the famous Wolsey, and his brother, William, was the founder of the Dukedom of Devonshire.

The employe, who sells the ticket, serves the popcorn, the cinema usher, cleaners, and all the ancillary service providers.

There was some applause, which angered the court usher who started shouting.

A confession of faith, drawn up by Archbishop Usher at the convocation of 1615, implicitly admitted the validity of Presbyterian ordination, and denied the distinction between bishop and presbyter.

But very often refreshment is undoubtedly obtained from such narcotic sleep. It may be supposed that in the latter case the effect of the drug has been to ensure occurrence of that second predisposing factor mentioned above, of that withdrawal of sense impulses from the nerve centres that serves to usher in the state of sleep. In certain conditions it may be well worth while by means of narcotic drugs to close the portals of the senses for the sake of thus obtaining stillness in the chambers of the mind; their enforced quietude may induce a period in which natural rest and repair continue long after the initial unnatural arrest of vitality due to the drug itself has passed away.

On the whole, the scheme of Archbishop Usher, who computed that the earth and man were created in 4004 B.C., was the most popular (see Chronology).

If you ca n't find them tell the usher.

Japan is thus ready to usher in a new era with a full Defense Ministry.

God was about to usher in a new, golden age, eternity was about to break through.

Jane and John invite you to help usher in the newest addition to their family.

However you choose to usher in a new year, preserve those memories with a festive album that's full of family, food and fun.

Usher Terry Raymond IV is best known by his first name.

Born in Dallas, Texas, in 1978, Usher is an R&B singer and musician who has sold over 65 million albums worldwide.

Ludacris has been nominated for fifteen Grammy Awards, but only won once for his collaboration with Usher on "Yeah" in 2005.

Early in her career, JoJo toured with R & B star Usher.

Singing sensation Usher decided he needs new management.

In a move that many a parent-managed celebrity has made, Usher is severing his professional ties with his mother, Jonnetta Patton, and keeping their relationship about family only.