Usually means: Guide, assist in finding seats.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. usher: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. usher: Merriam-Webster
  3. usher: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. usher: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. usher: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Usher, usher: Vocabulary.com
  7. Usher, usher: Wordnik
  8. usher: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Usher, usher: Wiktionary
  10. usher: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. usher: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. usher: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. usher: Dictionary.com
  14. usher (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. usher: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Usher (album), Usher (entertainer), Usher (fragrance), Usher (musician), Usher (occupation), Usher (singer), Usher (software), Usher (surname), Usher: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Usher: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. usher: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. usher: Rhymezone
  20. usher: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. usher: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. usher: FreeDictionary.org
  23. usher: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. usher: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. Usher: Who2
  26. usher: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Usher (disambiguation), usher: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Usher (disambiguation), usher: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Usher: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. USHER: Acronym Finder
  2. usher: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A person, in a church, cinema etc., who escorts people to their seats.
noun:  A male escort at a wedding.
noun:  A doorkeeper in a courtroom.
noun:  (obsolete) An assistant to a head teacher or schoolteacher; an assistant teacher.
noun:  (dated, derogatory) Any schoolteacher.
verb:  To guide people to their seats.
verb:  To accompany or escort (someone).
verb:  (figurative) To precede; to act as a forerunner or herald.
verb:  (figurative) To lead or guide somewhere.
noun:  A surname originating as an occupation for an usher.
noun:  A suburb of Bunbury, Western Australia.

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