undertaker

[uhn-der-tey-ker, uhn-der-tey-ker]

noun

1. funeral director.

2. a person who undertakes something.

undertaker

/ ˈʌndəˌteɪkə /

noun

1. a person whose profession is the preparation of the dead for burial or cremation and the management of funerals; funeral director

Word History and Origins

Origin of undertaker¹

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; undertake, -er ¹

Example Sentences

The single, folded sheet lists just 90 names, mostly businesses near historic downtown such as liveries, saloons, physicians, mills, druggists and the local undertaker.

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A respected journalist with the demeanor of an undertaker, McGee insisted to management that he ask the first three questions of any hard news subject who appeared on “Today” before Walters could have a chance.

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“The Mortician” is not the cable network’s first series about a family of undertakers operating a Pasadena funeral home.

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Modern Western culture caricatures vultures as undertakers, grim harbingers of death and hardly ideal images of maternal love.

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It meant police, firefighters, paramedics and undertakers all walked around the house and some even touched Mrs Crown's body to move things around.

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