案内する
解説 Definition
ushering は usher（案内する、誘導する）の現在分詞・動名詞です。人を席や会場などへ丁寧に案内している動作を表します。
Ushering is the present participle or gerund of usher. It refers to politely guiding or accompanying people to seats, through an entrance, or into a particular room, hall, or event area.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
ushering は usher に -ing を付けた現在分詞・動名詞です。語末が子音字二つになる変化はなく、そのまま ushering とします。usher guests to their seats、usher visitors into the hall のように、人を目的地へ丁寧に導く場面で覚え、単に道順を説明する direct と区別しましょう。
Ushering is formed by adding -ing directly to usher; no final consonant is doubled. Keep the original noun image of an usher, a person stationed near an entrance who guides guests. Useful patterns include ushering guests to their seats, ushering visitors into the hall, and ushering parents through an entrance. The word normally suggests courteous, physical guidance, not merely giving directions from a distance. It may describe an action in progress, as in staff are ushering guests, or act as a gerund naming the activity.
例文
The staff is ushering guests to their seats.
スタッフが来客を席へ案内しています。
She spent the evening ushering visitors into the hall.
彼女はその晩、来場者をホールへ案内して過ごしました。
Volunteers were ushering parents through the school entrance.
ボランティアたちは保護者を学校の入口から案内していました。
ushering の類義語・関連語
ushering の語源・成り立ち Etymology
usher（案内人）の動名詞形。古フランス語 huissier（門番）からで、ラテン語 ostiarius（門衛）、ostium（門・入口）に由来する。関連語: ostiary, ostium。「扉の番人」が「案内する」意味へ発展した。
Ushering is the present-participle and gerund form of usher. Usher entered English through Old French huissier, a doorkeeper or officer at a door, from huis, “door.” The deeper source is Latin ostiarius, “doorkeeper,” related to ostium, “door” or “entrance.” The occupational noun developed a verb meaning to conduct someone through an entrance or guide that person to a place.
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