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MORTICIAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does mortician mean?
• MORTICIAN (noun)
The noun MORTICIAN has 1 sense:
1. one whose business is the management of funerals
Familiarity information: MORTICIAN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
One whose business is the management of funerals
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
funeral director; funeral undertaker; mortician; undertaker
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)
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