UNDERTAKER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does undertaker mean? 

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

1. one whose business is the management of funerals

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNDERTAKER (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 ("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)

 Context examples 

Mr. Holmes, it was an undertaker’s.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The undertaker had certainly done his work well, for the room was turned into a small chapelle ardente.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

This gave them the seeming of ghostly masques, undertakers in a spectral world at the funeral of some ghost.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He was dressed in rusty black, with a very broad-brimmed top-hat and a loose white necktie—the whole effect being that of a very rustic parson or of an undertaker’s mute.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We were a little like undertakers, in the Commons, as regarded Probate transactions; generally making it a rule to look more or less cut up, when we had to deal with clients in mourning.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Mr. Reed had been dead nine years: it was in this chamber he breathed his last; here he lay in state; hence his coffin was borne by the undertaker's men; and, since that day, a sense of dreary consecration had guarded it from frequent intrusion.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"Some of the undertaker's people may have stolen it."

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

This is evidently the undertaker’s, for we have just passed the pawnbroker’s.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The undertaker, true to his craft, had made the best display he could of his goods, and there was a mortuary air about the place that lowered our spirits at once.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It was the remark of the undertaker’s wife, as reported by Philip Green.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)