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Usher In

Definition: Usher In

Usher In

Verb

1. 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 In

Synonyms: inaugurate (v), introduce (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Usher In

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Usher In

English words defined with "usher in": Black RodPew opener. (references)
Specialty definitions using "usher in": Anodyne Necklace. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Usher In

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Expressions: Usher In

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.

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Modern Translation: Usher In

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

   

Romanian

  

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)

   

Russian 

  

вводить (enter, induct, initiate, introduce, scan in, show in, work in). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

uvesti u. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

acomodar (accommodate, accomodate, adapt, adjust, attune, fit, fix, mount, place, put up, suit, tune). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

utgöra inledningen till, inleda (commence, inaugurate, initiate, institute, introduce, lead off, open, strike up). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

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)

   

Ukrainian

  

оголошувати (announce, annunciate, bid, declare, enounce, enunciate, give out, notify, post, preconize, proclaim, pronounce), бути передмовою. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Usher In

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Expressions
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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