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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
emcee
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a beauty pageant emcee
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ The emcee announces that we have raised close to $ 700, 000 today.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
emcee

1933, emsee, from pronunciation of M.C., abbreviation of master of ceremonies, a noun phrase attested from the 1660s.

Wiktionary
emcee

n. Variation of MC, master of ceremonies (host of a game show or function). vb. To act as the master of ceremonies.

WordNet
emcee
  1. n. a person who acts as host at formal occasions (makes an introductory speech and introduces other speakers) [syn: master of ceremonies, host]

  2. v. act as a master of ceremonies [syn: compere]

Usage examples of "emcee".

Around me the crowd quietened down a little and the spotlights came up as Emcee Carnage joined us.

At home, she even made her mother pretend to be the emcee and announce JonBenet walking down the runway.

The emcee, recognizing that it would be impossible to get silence now, called for a break.

He made his way up to the microphone as the emcee called out his name.

Before the emcee could ask the first question, Peterson began to talk.

The emcee waved at the floor manager to turn Peterson off, but Peterson kept talking.

Bert Parks to emcee and had filled the stage with an orchestra and twenty four different church choirs from all over Kansas City, wearing specially designed blue velvet robes with a jeweled Miss Missouri crown embedded on the front.

She now endorsed products on television, opened supermar­kets, gave after-dinner speeches, emceed gong shows.

If you've seen David at conventions emceeing a costume competition or competing in one, smoothly chairing a panel, dramatically reading sections of his work, delivering a talk on the state of science fiction or of "the art" in generalyou may have developed an idea of who he is and how he is.

The emcee of the Orange Bowl halftime show was a television personality named John Davidson, selected chiefly because of his dimples, which could be seen from as far away as the stadium's upper deck.