usher
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
usher/ˈʌʃə(r)/
▶noun
- 1 a person who shows people to their seats in a cinema or theatre or at a wedding.
- 2 Brit. a person employed to walk before a person of high rank on special occasions.
- 3 an official in a law court who swears in jurors and witnesses and keeps order.
- 4 archaic an assistant teacher.
- 1 show or guide somewhere.
- 2 (usher something in) cause or mark the start of something new.
– origin ME (denoting a doorkeeper): from Anglo-Norman Fr. usser, from med. L. ustiarius, from L. ostiarius, from ostium ‘door’.
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