MORTICIAN

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

One whose business is the management of funerals

Synonyms:

funeral director; funeral undertaker; mortician; undertaker

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("mortician" is a kind of...):

skilled worker; skilled workman; trained worker (a worker who has acquired special skills)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mortician"):

embalmer (a mortician who treats corpses with preservatives)