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UNDERTAKER

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

One whose business is the management of funerals

Synonyms:

funeral director; funeral undertaker; mortician; undertaker

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("undertaker" 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 "undertaker"):

embalmer (a mortician who treats corpses with preservatives)

Credits

 Context examples: 

I found no difficulty about the registration, and arranged with the local undertaker to come up in the evening to measure for the coffin and to make arrangements.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Let us fill up the certificate at once, and I shall take it myself to the registrar and go on to the undertaker.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I attended to all the ghastly formalities, and the urbane undertaker proved that his staff were afflicted—or blessed—with something of his own obsequious suavity.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The undertaker seemed shocked at his own stupidity and exerted himself to restore things to the condition in which we left them the night before, so that when Arthur came such shocks to his feelings as we could avoid were saved.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I left him in the drawing-room, and told Van Helsing that he had said good-bye; so the latter went to the kitchen to tell the undertaker's men to proceed with the preparations and to screw up the coffin.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)