Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The functions or power of ushers; ushership; also, ushers collectively.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The office or position of an usher; ushership; also, ushers, collectively.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The office or position of an
usher . - noun Ushers, collectively.
Etymologies
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usher + -dom
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Examples
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I am sure that we schoolmasters have many faults; but we are really trying to do better, and, as I said before, I only wish that a man of Kipling's genius had held out to us a helping hand, instead of giving us a push back into the ugly slough of usherdom, out of which many good fellows, my friends and colleagues, have, however feebly, been struggling to emerge.
The Upton Letters Arthur Christopher Benson 1893
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