USHER
What does "USHER" mean?
A person who shows people to their seats, especially at an event; or to lead someone somewhere.
Meanings
- A person who escorts people to their seats in a theatre, church, or other venue. An usher in a red waistcoat guided us down the dim aisle.
- To guide or escort someone to a place. A steward ushered the guests into the hall.
- To mark the beginning of something; to bring in. The invention of the printing press ushered in a new age of literacy. figurative
Did you know?
- An usher was originally a literal doorkeeper: the word comes from Latin 'ostiarius', from 'ostium' meaning 'door' — the job was guarding the threshold long before it meant finding your seat.
Word origin
From Anglo-Norman 'usser', from Latin 'ostiarius' ('doorkeeper'), from 'ostium' ('door, entrance').
Remember it
USHER sounds like 'us-here' — the person who shows US to HERE, our seats.
A little poem
A small torch bobs along the dark-
the usher knows each row by heart,
and leads you toward the lifting spark.
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Wordplay
- The doorman got promoted to seating people. He said it was a real threshold moment.
What it teaches
To usher well is to walk a step ahead in the dark so someone else can find their place.
Quick facts
What does USHER mean?
A person who shows people to their seats, especially at an event; or to lead someone somewhere.
Is USHER a valid word?
Yes — USHER is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is USHER?
USHER has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does USHER come from?
From Anglo-Norman 'usser', from Latin 'ostiarius' ('doorkeeper'), from 'ostium' ('door, entrance').
What can USHER teach us?
To usher well is to walk a step ahead in the dark so someone else can find their place.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.