Usher vs Steward - What's the difference?
usher | steward |
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.
To guide people to their seats.
* 1836 , , Sketches by Boz , "The curate. The old lady. The half-pay captain."
To accompany or escort (someone).
* 1898 , , The Rise of the Dutch Republic , page 509
(figuratively) To precede; to act as a forerunner or herald.
* 1912 , Elizabeth Christine Cook, Literary Influences in Colonial Newspapers, 1704-1750 , page 31
(figuratively) to lead or guide somewhere
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A person who manages the property or affairs for another entity.
A ship's officer who is in charge of making dining arrangements and provisions.
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*:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy. Mail bags, so I understand, are being put on board. Stewards , carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place.
A flight attendant, especially but not exclusively'' a male flight attendant. ''Often as "air steward", "airline steward", etc.
A union member who is selected as a representative for fellow workers in negotiating terms with management.
A person who has charge of buildings and/or grounds and/or animals.
A fiscal agent of certain bodies.
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In some colleges, an officer who provides food for the students and superintends the kitchen; also, an officer who attends to the accounts of the students.
In Scotland, a magistrate appointed by the crown to exercise jurisdiction over royal lands.
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In information technology, somebody who is responsible for managing a set of projects, products or technologies and how they affect the IT organization to which they belong.
To act as the steward or caretaker of (something)
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As a noun usher
is a person, in a church, cinema etc, who escorts people to their seats.As a verb usher
is to guide people to their seats.As a proper noun steward is
, a variant of stewart.usher
English
(wikipedia usher)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* usheretteVerb
- Her entrance into church on Sunday is always the signal for a little bustle in the side aisle, occasioned by a general rise among the poor people, who bow and curtsey until the pew-opener has ushered the old lady into her accustomed seat, dropped a respectful curtsey, and shut the door;
- Margaret was astonished at the magnificence of the apartments into which she was ushered .
- Thus the Harvard poets and wits ushered The New England Courant out of existence.
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Derived terms
* usher inAnagrams
* *steward
English
(wikipedia steward)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (union member) (l) * (l), (l)Derived terms
* shop steward * stewardly * stewardry * understewardHyponyms
* stewardessVerb
(en verb)citation
