FUNERAL DIRECTOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does funeral director mean? 

• FUNERAL DIRECTOR (noun)
  The noun FUNERAL DIRECTOR has 1 sense:

1. one whose business is the management of funerals

  Familiarity information: FUNERAL DIRECTOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FUNERAL DIRECTOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One whose business is the management of funerals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

funeral director; funeral undertaker; mortician; undertaker

Hypernyms ("funeral director" 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 "funeral director"):

embalmer (a mortician who treats corpses with preservatives)