funeral director

noun

1. a person, usually a licensed embalmer, who supervises or conducts the preparation of the dead for burial and directs or arranges funerals.

2. a person who owns or operates a funeral home.

funeral director

noun

1. an undertaker

Word History and Origins

Origin of funeral director¹

An Americanism dating back to 1885–90

Example Sentences

Rows of coffins line a university classroom in the South Korean port city of Busan, ready for the training of future funeral directors in a country where the population is ageing rapidly.

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Rows of coffins line a university classroom in the South Korean port city of Busan, ready for use in training the funeral directors of the future in a rapidly ageing country.

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Impatient drivers must "show respect" for funeral corteges after a hearse was side-swiped, delaying someone's funeral and causing £20,000 of damage, a funeral director has said.

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A former funeral director has pleaded guilty to 36 charges of fraud after a major investigation into human remains found at his premises.

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Several months after Patricia's death, at the age of 100, it emerged the family had been given the wrong urn by funeral directors who are now the focus of a major police investigation.

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