usher

Meanings

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.
4. An assistant to a head teacher or schoolteacher; an assistant teacher.
5. Any schoolteacher.

1. To guide people to their seats.
2. To accompany or escort (someone).
3. To precede; to act as a forerunner or herald.
4. To lead or guide somewhere.

1. A surname originating as an occupation for an usher.
2. A suburb of Bunbury, Western Australia.

Etymology

From Middle English ussher, uscher, usscher, from Anglo-Norman usser and Old French ussier, uissier (“porter, doorman”) (compare French huissier), from Vulgar Latin *ustiārius (“doorkeeper”), from Latin ōstiārius, from ōstium (“door”). Akin to ōs (“mouth”). Probably a doublet of ostiary and huissier.