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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: one whose business is the management of funerals [syn: mortician, undertaker, funeral undertaker, funeral director]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Latin mort-, mors death Date: 1895 undertaker 2

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. US an undertaker; a manager of funerals. Etymology: L mors mortis death + -ICIAN

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(morticians) A mortician is a person whose job is to deal with the bodies of people who have died and to arrange funerals. (mainly AM) = undertaker N-COUNT