mortician
noun/mɔːˈtɪʃn/
/mɔːrˈtɪʃn/
(North American English) (also formal funeral director, undertaker (both British and North American English))
- a person whose job is to prepare the bodies of dead people to be buried or cremated, and to arrange funerals Topics Jobsc2, Life stagesc2Word Originlate 19th cent.: from Latin mors, mort- ‘death’ + -ician.
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