GRAVEDIGGER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gravedigger mean? 

• GRAVEDIGGER (noun)
  The noun GRAVEDIGGER has 1 sense:

1. a person who earns a living by digging graves

  Familiarity information: GRAVEDIGGER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRAVEDIGGER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who earns a living by digging graves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

jack; laborer; labourer; manual laborer (someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor)

 Context examples 

We got to the churchyard by half-past one, and strolled about, keeping out of official observation, so that when the gravediggers had completed their task and the sexton under the belief that every one had gone, had locked the gate, we had the place all to ourselves.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)