| 单词 | mortician |
| 释义 | Related topics: Occupations, Deathmor·ti·cian /mɔːˈtɪʃən $ mɔːr-/ noun [countable] American English BOMXsomeone whose job is to arrange funerals and prepare bodies to be buried 承办丧葬者，殡葬业者 SYN British English undertakerExamples 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 strive like obsequious morticians to provide consolation by enshrining a corpse.• We say undertaker, they say mortician.Origin mortician (1800-1900) Latin mors ( → MORTAL1) + English -icianmor·ti·cian nounChineseSyllable prepare job funerals to Corpus someone and whose is arrange |
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