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Definition: Usher In |
Usher InVerb1. Be a precursor of; "The fall of the Berlin Wall ushered in the post-Cold War period". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Usher InSynonyms: inaugurate (v), introduce (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Beginning | Usher in; lead off, lead the way; take the lead, take the initiative; head; stand at the head, stand first, stand for; lay the foundations; (prepare); found; (cause); set up, set on foot, agoing, set abroach, set the ball in motion; apply the match to a train; broach; open up, open the door to. |
Precedence | Verb: precede; come before, come first; head, lead, take the lead; lead the way, lead the dance; be in the vanguard; introduce, usher in; have the pas; set the fashion; (influence); open the ball; take precedence, have precedence; have the start; (get before). |
Precession | Verb: go before, go ahead, go in the van, go in advance; precede, forerun; usher in, introduce, herald, head, take the lead; lead the way, lead the dance; get the start, have the start; steal a march; get before, get ahead, get in front of; outstrip; take precedence; (first in order). |
Prediction | Usher in, herald, premise, announce; lower. |
Priority | Verb: precede, come before; forerun; go before; (lead); preexist; dawn; presage; herald, usher in. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Usher In |
| English words defined with "usher in": Black Rod ♦ Pew opener. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "usher in": Anodyne Necklace. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Ireland | It is not just economic good luck that turned the Irish economy into a "Celtic Tiger." Factors such as tough cuts in government spending dating from the late 1980s, associated with a series of "National Wage Partnership Programs" negotiated between the Government and the private sector, which helped usher in a period of cooperative industrial relations. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Expressions using "usher in": usher in a new epoch ♦ usher in a new era. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "usher in"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shpall (adjudicate, announce, assert, asseverate, blaze, celebrate, declare, delate, divulge, enounce, enunciate, hold, notify, post, proclaim, promulgate, pronounce, read, state), fut (accept, cram into, drive, drive in, embed, engrain, enter, establish, foot, hide, insert, intercalate, interpolate, introduce, launch, let in, mix in, move in, number, plunge, poke, pour into, put, put in the picture, put smb. wise to smth., set, speak, stick into, stock up, stuff, submerge, take on, thrust, tuck). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | съпровождам (accompany, conduct, escort), въвеждам (bring, bring in, establish, herald, import, initiate, institute, introduce, naturalize, pioneer, prelude, premise, prologue, put in, set up, show, take in), водя (carry on, conduct, deliver, go, guide, keep, lead, manage, pilot, prevent, prosecute, pursue, take, wage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | uvést (adduce, bring into play, cite, induct, initiate, introduce, preface, quote, show in, state, usher), uvádìt (host, say, screen, usher), slavnostnì vítat, ohlašovat (announce, Herald), ohlásit (announce, bill, call, notify, register). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | hineingeleiten, hineinführen (lead in), hineinbringen (see in, take in), hereingeleiten, hereinführen (show in), hereinbringen (bring in, make good, make up for, see in, take in). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | εισάγω (admit, enter, import, induct, initiate, inject, insert, institute, introduce, prelude, usher). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ל"כ יס (admit, enter, insert, introduce, let in, put in), ל"ביא לעולם. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | betessékel, bejelent (announce, annunciate, notify, to announce, to report, to return, to usher). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 請じ入れる (to invite or usher in), 迎え入れる (to show in, to usher in), 招じ入れる (to invite or usher in), 入れる (to admit, to bring in, to cast, to commit, to comprehend, to employ, to include, to insert, to introduce, to let in, to listen to, to pay, to put in, to set, to take in, to tolerate, to usher in), 上'る (to admit, to advance, to arrange, to arrest, to bear, to do up, to elevate, to engage, to finish, to fly, to fry, to give, to improve, to increase, to leave with, to mention, to observe, to offer, to perform, to praise, to present, to promote, to quote, to raise, to send, to stop, to usher in, to vomit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しょうじいれる (to invite or usher in), いれる (to admit, to bring in, to cast, to commit, to comprehend, to employ, to include, to insert, to introduce, to let in, to listen to, to pay, to put in, to put into, to set, to take in, to tolerate, to usher in), あ'る (to admit, to advance, to arrange, to arrest, to bear, to do up, to elevate, to engage, to finish, to fly, to fry, to give, to improve, to increase, to leave with, to lift, to mention, to observe, to offer, to perform, to praise, to present, to promote, to quote, to raise, to send, to stop, to usher in, to vomit), むかえいれる (to show in, to usher in). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | erushay inay introduce intr-un salon, anunţa (advertise, announce, annunciate, bid, bill, blow around, cry, forebode, foretell, give notice, give out, Herald, import, inform, instruct, notify, promise, publish, report, ring). (various references) вводить (enter, induct, initiate, introduce, scan in, show in, work in). (various references) uvesti u. (various references) acomodar (accommodate, accomodate, adapt, adjust, attune, fit, fix, mount, place, put up, suit, tune). (various references) utgöra inledningen till, inleda (commence, inaugurate, initiate, institute, introduce, lead off, open, strike up). (various references) müjdelemek (announce good news, harbinger, Herald), müjdecisi olmak, içeri getirmek, açmak (bare, beat, bring up in conversation, bring up the subject, broach, cave, cave in, clear, clear away, clear off, clear up, cleave, cut, cut loose, dehisce, denude, dilate, dilute, disclose, disentangle, elaborate, evolve, expand, fade, inaugurate, institute, lay open, lead, lighten, loosen, loosen up, offer, open, open out, open up, pass, put up, ring up, shake out, sharpen, site, spread, spread out, strip, switch on, thaw, thaw out, throw open, tint, turn on, turn up, unbind, unbosom, unburden, uncase, unclasp, uncloak, unclose, unclothe, uncoil, uncover, uncross, uncurl, undo, unfold, unfurl, unhitch, unlock, unloose, unpack, unpin, unplait, unroll, unseal, unsnarl, unstop, untangle, unthread, untie, untwine, untwist, unwind, unwrap, whet, whiten, wind). (various references) оголошувати (announce, annunciate, bid, declare, enounce, enunciate, give out, notify, post, preconize, proclaim, pronounce), бути передмовою. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-i-n-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: inrush, insure, inures, rusine, shiner, shrine, urines, ursine. | |
-2 letters: heirs, herns, hires, inure, nurse, reins, resin, rinse, risen, ruins, runes, serin, shier, shine, shire, sieur, siren, urine, usher. | |
-3 letters: erns, heir, hens, hern, hers, hies, hins, hire, hisn, hues, huns, ires, rein, reis, resh, rhus, rins, rise, rues, ruin, rune, runs, ruse, rush. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-i-n-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: inhumers, inrushes, punisher, rheniums, ushering. | |
+2 letters: burnished, burnisher, burnishes, furnished, furnisher, furnishes, hungriest, inhaulers, nourished, nourisher, nourishes, punishers, refurnish, rehousing, shunpiker, superthin. | |
+3 letters: bounderish, burnishers, crunchiest, eutherians, furnishers, harlequins, housetrain, humanizers, humdingers, hungriness, hurricanes, languisher, neighbours, nourishers, raunchiest, relinquish, rutheniums, shuddering, shunpikers, shuttering, undershirt, unravished, unsphering, unworthies, vanquisher. | |
+4 letters: beshrouding, brutishness, chirurgeons, crunchiness, enshrouding, euphoriants, grouchiness, gunfighters, hirsuteness, housetrains, huckstering, hurriedness, husbandries, languishers, nailbrushes, neutrophils, nourishment, overnourish, prudishness, raunchiness, refurnished, refurnishes, rehumanizes, reshuffling, roguishness, ruttishness, scouthering, sepulchring, shouldering, springhouse, superhyping, surgeonfish, tribuneship, trunkfishes, undershirts, unfurnished, ungarnished, unrighteous, unsightlier, untarnished, unvarnished, unworthiest, uprightness, vanquishers, warehousing. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Expressions 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Bibliography |
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