Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. An undertaker, one who arranges funerals
WordNet
n. one whose business is the management of funerals [syn: mortician, undertaker, funeral undertaker]
Wikipedia
A funeral director, also known as a mortician or undertaker, is a professional involved in the business of funeral rites. These tasks often entail the embalming and burial or cremation of the dead, as well as the planning and arrangement of the actual funeral ceremony. Funeral directors may at times be asked to perform tasks such as dressing (in garments usually suitable for daily wear), casketing (placing the human body in the coffin), and cossetting (applying any sort of cosmetic or substance to the viewable areas of the corpse for the purpose of enhancing its appearance). A funeral director may work at a funeral home or be an independent employee.
Usage examples of "funeral director".
If the embalming had been done, the blood drawn out and replaced by a chemical solution designed to disinfect and preserve, to discourage life rather than sustain it, and from both Vicki's and Celluci's reports, the younger funeral director was certain it had, then there was no way that Marjory Nelson had risen to hunt the night.
If the embalming had been done, the blood drawn out and replaced by a chemical solution designed to disinfect and preserve, to discourage life rather than sustain it-and from both Vicki's and Celluci's reports, the younger funeral director was certain it had- then there was no way that Marjory Nelson had risen to hunt the night.
That fucking funeral director-I know he talked the family into being Baptists.
He looked at it, ran his thumb over it, then handed it to th-'e funeral director.
A local funeral director, who had consented to be on hand, carefully opened the casket.