1
a
: an officer or servant who has the care of the door of a court, hall, or chamber
b
: an officer who walks before a person of rank
c
: one who escorts persons to their seats (as in a theater)
2
archaic
: an assistant teacher
ushered; ushering
ˈə-sh(ə-)riŋ 
1
: to conduct to a place
2
: to precede as an usher, forerunner, or harbinger
3
: to cause to enter : introduce
a new theory ushered into the world
: to serve as an usher
usher at a wedding
Synonyms
Examples of usher in a Sentence
Verb
He ushered them to their seats.
A nurse ushered us into the hospital room.
Recent Examples on the Web
Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Feb. 2024
More than once, an usher reprimanded a show-goer for filming the stage with their iPhone.
—Elise Taylor, Vogue, 23 Feb. 2024
Musk’s announcement could mark an important milestone for Neuralink’s efforts to usher potentially life-transforming technology out of the lab and into the real world.
—Diksha Madhok, CNN, 30 Jan. 2024
The union is attempting to represent a broad swath of roles — including ushers, cooks, bartenders, janitors and others — at the sprawling, 19-theater location, situated on the same campus as the Universal Studios theme park.
—Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Feb. 2024
Early success in the first human trial of the brain chip technology could mark an important milestone for Neuralink’s efforts to usher potentially life-transforming technology — especially for people unable to move or communicate — out of the lab and into the real world.
—Clare Duffy, CNN, 20 Feb. 2024
But unlike the 1950s or even the 1980s, when state policies swooped in to help usher the Mo i Rana economy into a new era, some fear that this time, Norway’s national government may not come through.
—Ana Swanson Thomas Ekström, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2024
Rudy Gobert surprised Target Center ushers and arena workers with a holiday present again this season.
—Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 3 Jan. 2024
Having closed up shop 40 years ago, the gallery may be staging a return to Manhattan, and Hayden-Guest and a group of other artist friends came to Miami to help usher it back into the world.
—Ian Volner, Curbed, 8 Dec. 2023
Carolyn Giardina, Variety, 4 Apr. 2024
Security is tight, and a guard ushers me inside a first set of doors, and then a second.
—Aemilia Madden, Vogue, 30 Mar. 2024
Piccioli was also the driving force behind Pugh’s sheer nipple-baring pink gown that broke the Internet in July 2022 and ushered the brand from its iconic red era into the pink era it's been enjoying for the past several years.
—Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 28 Mar. 2024
The equinox ushers you into unabashed introspection.
—USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2024
And Papen, who had ushered Hitler directly into power, was acquitted at Nuremberg; in the nineteen-fifties, he was awarded the highest honorary order of the Catholic Church.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
Cantwell has served as a roadblock to popular bipartisan tech legislation in the past
To move forward, Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell (D-WA) will need to usher the legislation through her panel.
—Lauren Feiner, The Verge, 15 Mar. 2024
Ridiculed by the media and resented by many of his colleagues, Levin was unceremoniously ushered out as CEO of AOL Time Warner just two years after the merger.
—Dylan Sloan, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2024
Photos from the scene captured one of the protesters being ushered out of the rotunda by a USCP officer.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 22 Mar. 2024
Noun
Esposito steps into the role of White House chief usher A.B. Wynter and joins a cast that includes Aduba, Susan Kelechi Watson, Jason Lee, Ken Marino, Edwina Findley, Molly Griggs, Al Mitchell, Dan Perrault, Bronson Pinchot Isiah Whitlock Jr. and Mary Wiseman.
—Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Feb. 2024
More than once, an usher reprimanded a show-goer for filming the stage with their iPhone.
—Elise Taylor, Vogue, 23 Feb. 2024
Musk’s announcement could mark an important milestone for Neuralink’s efforts to usher potentially life-transforming technology out of the lab and into the real world.
—Diksha Madhok, CNN, 30 Jan. 2024
The union is attempting to represent a broad swath of roles — including ushers, cooks, bartenders, janitors and others — at the sprawling, 19-theater location, situated on the same campus as the Universal Studios theme park.
—Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Feb. 2024
Early success in the first human trial of the brain chip technology could mark an important milestone for Neuralink’s efforts to usher potentially life-transforming technology — especially for people unable to move or communicate — out of the lab and into the real world.
—Clare Duffy, CNN, 20 Feb. 2024
But unlike the 1950s or even the 1980s, when state policies swooped in to help usher the Mo i Rana economy into a new era, some fear that this time, Norway’s national government may not come through.
—Ana Swanson Thomas Ekström, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2024
Rudy Gobert surprised Target Center ushers and arena workers with a holiday present again this season.
—Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 3 Jan. 2024
Having closed up shop 40 years ago, the gallery may be staging a return to Manhattan, and Hayden-Guest and a group of other artist friends came to Miami to help usher it back into the world.
—Ian Volner, Curbed, 8 Dec. 2023
Verb
For the past few years, a who’s who of directors, cinematographers, studio execs and exhibitors have been quietly ushered into an unmarked room at the famed Glen Glenn Sound facility in Los Angeles.
—Carolyn Giardina, Variety, 4 Apr. 2024
Security is tight, and a guard ushers me inside a first set of doors, and then a second.
—Aemilia Madden, Vogue, 30 Mar. 2024
Piccioli was also the driving force behind Pugh’s sheer nipple-baring pink gown that broke the Internet in July 2022 and ushered the brand from its iconic red era into the pink era it's been enjoying for the past several years.
—Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 28 Mar. 2024
The equinox ushers you into unabashed introspection.
—USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2024
And Papen, who had ushered Hitler directly into power, was acquitted at Nuremberg; in the nineteen-fifties, he was awarded the highest honorary order of the Catholic Church.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
Cantwell has served as a roadblock to popular bipartisan tech legislation in the past
To move forward, Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell (D-WA) will need to usher the legislation through her panel.
—Lauren Feiner, The Verge, 15 Mar. 2024
Ridiculed by the media and resented by many of his colleagues, Levin was unceremoniously ushered out as CEO of AOL Time Warner just two years after the merger.
—Dylan Sloan, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2024
Photos from the scene captured one of the protesters being ushered out of the rotunda by a USCP officer.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 22 Mar. 2024
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“Usher.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/usher. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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usher
1 of 2 noun
ush·er
ˈəsh-ər
: a person who leads other persons to seats (as in a theater or at a wedding)
usher
2 of 2 verb
ushered; ushering
ˈəsh-(ə-)riŋ
1
: to lead to a place
2
: to cause to enter : introduce
usher in a new era
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