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# usher

«usher» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who shows people to their seats or into a room…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (ushers, plural) ; verb (usher, ushers, ushered, ushering)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An usher is a person who shows people to their seats or into a room, especially in a hall or a palace. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/usher/#m1)

2) To usher someone is to lead or show them politely into a place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/usher/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales a servant or official shows a visitor into the presence of a ruler or a great person

### examples

- Here likewise the ushers abandoned their posts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/usher/#x1)
- If he was dumbfounded, the merchant, who was ushered into his presence soon after sunrise, was much more so. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/usher/#x2)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «usher» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/usher/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.