funeral directornoun [ C ]
uk/ˈfjuː.nər.əl daɪˌrek.tər/us/ˈfjuː.nɚ.əl daɪˌrek.tɚ/a person whose job it is to arrange for the bodies of dead people to be buried or burned
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Funerals
- closed-casket
- cortege
- funeral parlour
- funerary
- funereal
- green burial
- hearse
- lay
- morgue
- mortician
- mourner
- natural burial
- open-casket
- pall
- pay your respects idiom
- respect
- the last post
- undertaker
- wake
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Examples from literature
- Had she started life as a funeral director instead of a milliner, it is probable that she would have infused into the dreary business something of the living quality of genius.
- He was employed by a funeral director in Philadelphia to write obituary verses for memorial cards.
- It is curious that long association with the sadness of death seems to have deprived an occasional funeral director of all sense of moderation.