mortician
pronunciation
How to pronounce mortician in British English:
UK [mɔ:ˈtɪʃn]
How to pronounce mortician in American English:
US [mɔrˈtɪʃn]
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- Noun:
- one whose business is the management of funerals
Word Origin
- mortician (n.)
- 1895, American English, coined from mortuary + -ician, as in physician.An undertaker will no longer be known as an "undertaker and embalmer." In the future he will be known as the "mortician." This was decided on at the second day's meeting of the Funeral Directors' Association of Kentucky, which was held in Louisville. ["The Medical Herald," July 1895]
Example
- 1. I never really wanted to be a mortician .
- 2. Mortician employee , job value , professional self-positioned role .
- 3. There 's a mortician down the alley .
- 4. A body was prematurely sent to a mortician .
- 5. I 'll put a smile on your face a mortician couldn 't remove .