单词 | mortician |
释义 | mortician From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Death Occupationsmorticianmor‧ti‧cian /mɔːˈtɪʃən $ mɔːr-/ noun [countable] American EnglishBOMXsomeone whose job is to arrange funerals and prepare bodies to be buried SYN undertaker British EnglishExamples from the Corpusmortician• Law school professors, in my view, are the drones and morticians of the profession.• Funeral directors are also called morticians or undertakers.• The driver is a furniture mortician, escorting dead sofas to a grave in a landfill.• We say undertaker, they say mortician.Origin mortician (1800-1900) Latin mors ( → MORTAL1) + English -ician |
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