Meaning and Origin
What does the name Usher mean? Keep reading to find the user submitted meanings, dictionary definitions, and more.
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- A user from Georgia, U.S. says the name Usher is of Irish origin and means "Servant".
- An officer or servant who has the care of the door of a court, hall, chamber, or the like; hence, an officer whose business it is to introduce strangers, or to walk before a person of rank. Also, one who escorts persons to seats in a church, theater, etc."The ushersand the squires." [Chaucer.]"These are the ushers of Marcius." [Shak.]
- An under teacher, or assistant master, in a school.
Note: ☞ There are various officers of this kind attached to the royal household in England, including the gentleman usher of the black rod, who attends in the House of Peers during the sessions of Parliament, and twelve or more gentlemen ushers. See Black rod.
Etymology: OE. ussher uschere, OF. ussier uisser oissier hussier huissier, fr. L. ostiarius a doorkeeper, fr. ostium a door, entrance, fr. os mouth. See Oral, and cf. Ostiary
- Someone employed to conduct others
- An official stationed at the entrance of a courtroom or legislative chamber
- Irish prelate who deduced from the Bible that Creation occurred in the year 4004 BC (1581-1656)
- Take (someone) to their seats, as in theaters or auditoriums ("The usher showed us to our seats")
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman usser, from Old French ussier, uissier (“porter, doorman”) (compare French huissier), from Vulgar Latin *ustiārius (“doorkeeper”), from Latin ōstiārius, from ostium (“door”). Akin to ōs (“mouth”). Probably a doublet of ostiary and huissier.
- A person, in a church, cinema etc., who escorts people to their seats.
- A male escort at a wedding.
- A doorkeeper in a courtroom.
- (dated) An underteacher, or assistant master, in a school.
- (dated, derogatory) Any schoolteacher.