Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: undertaker
IPA transcription: ['ʌndɚt,eɪkɚ]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: mortician, undertaker, funeral_undertaker, funeral_director
    Meaning: one whose business is the management of funerals
Usage examples
  • To pour chloroform over an old man's breakfast food and telephone for the undertaker.
  • The man was very frightened at her words, and lay absolutely still while the undertaker came and measured him for his coffin; and his wife gave orders to the gravedigger about his grave.
  • After each fruitful visit to the undertaker, and he paid several in his zeal, he came back to Lucy and she was grateful; and she was not only grateful, but very obviously glad to get him back.
  • She called them tributes. The neighbors said it was the doctor first, then Emmeline, then the undertaker—the undertaker never got in ahead of Emmeline but once, and then she hung fire on a rhyme for the dead person's name, which was Whistler.
  • That evening the coffin was sent home, and in the morning at nine o'clock the woman put him on a long flannel garment, and called to the undertaker's men to fasten down the lid and carry him to the grave, where all their friends were waiting them.
  • The remaining four passengers sat on for a while, until a solemn-looking man in the corner, who, from his dress and general appearance, seemed to belong to the undertaker class, said it put him in mind of dead baby; and the other three passengers tried to get out of the door at the same time, and hurt themselves.