Usher

1 Irish prelate who deduced from the Bible that Creation occurred in the year 4004 BC (1581-1656) [syn: Ussher, James Ussher, James Usher]

2 an official doorkeeper as in a courtroom or legislative chamber [syn: doorkeeper]

3 someone employed to conduct others [syn: guide] v : show (someone) to their seats, as in theaters or auditoriums; "The usher showed us to our seats" [syn: show]

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʌʃə(r)

Noun

1. A person, in a church, cinema etc., who escorts people to their seats.
2. A male escort at a wedding.
3. A doorkeeper in a courtroom.

Translations

• Finnish: paikannäyttäjä (escort to seats), sulhaspoika (male escort), ovenvartija (doorkeeper)
• Italian: uscière
• Slovak: uvádzač
• Spanish: ujier

Verb

1. To act as an usher.
2. To escort (someone.)

Derived terms

• usher in
• usherette

Usher may refer to:

People

• Usher (entertainer), an American R&B singer
• Usher (occupation)

Officials

• The Gentleman Usher of an order of knights (in the United Kingdom)
  • The Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, of the Order of the Garter
  • The Gentleman Usher of the Green Rod, of the Order of the Thistle
  • The Irish Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, of the Irish Order of St Patrick
  • The Gentleman Usher of the Scarlet Rod, of the Order of the Bath
  • The Gentleman Usher of the Blue Rod, of the Order of St Michael and St George
  • The Gentleman Usher of the Purple Rod, of the Order of the British Empire
• Church usher

Places

• Usher, Western Australia

Fiction

• The family name in Edgar Allan Poe's short-story "The Fall of the House of Usher"

Film

• House of Usher (film) 1960 horror film.
• The Fall of the House of Usher (1928 American film)
• The Fall of the House of Usher (1928 French film)
• Usher (2002 film) short film

See also

• Ussher (surname)
• Usher syndrome
• Usher (surname)

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