usher

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈʌʃəɹ/

Noun

obsolete dated derogatory

Japanese Meaning

教会や映画館などで、来客を座席に案内する係 / 結婚式で男性の案内人として活躍する役割 / 法廷等で、入室者を案内する係員

What is this buttons?

The usher guided latecomers quietly to their seats before the performance began.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

その案内係は開演前に遅れてきた人たちを静かに席へ案内した。

Details

Sense（1）

A person, in a church, cinema etc., who escorts people to their seats.

Sense（2）

A male escort at a wedding.

Sense（3）

A doorkeeper in a courtroom.

Sense（4）

(obsolete) An assistant to a head teacher or schoolteacher; an assistant teacher.

[H]e defrayed the expence of his entrance, and left him in the particular care and inspection of the usher, who […] though obliged by the scandalous administration of fortune to act in the character of an inferior teacher, had by his sole capacity and application, brought the school to that degree of reputation which it never could have obtained from the talents of his superior.

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Sense（5）

(dated, derogatory) Any schoolteacher.

ushers

（ plural ）

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