FUNERAL DIRECTOR Synonyms: 3 Similar Words

funeral director

noun

Definition of funeral director

as in undertaker

a person who manages funerals and prepares the dead for burial or cremation the funeral director instructed the pallbearers on how to proceed

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Recent Examples of funeral director Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation records showed South Side Chapel's funeral director was listed as Johanna Morgan and her husband Clark Morgan as its president. — Dave Savini, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2026 Johanna Morgan's license as a funeral director and embalmer was suspended by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. — Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 8 Aug. 2026 Her funeral director's license was temporarily suspended Wednesday. — Michael Sinkewicz, FOXNews.com, 8 Aug. 2026 Investigators found his ashes in a brown paper bag on the floor of the funeral director’s premises more than a year after Bush handed her a little blue coffin and told her Sunny’s ashes were inside. — ABC News, 31 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for funeral director

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undertaker

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This one stars Cox himself as a mysterious and formidable old man in an undertaker’s suit and parson’s hat who wanders into an Arizona border town in 1890 to gather the names of dead Mexican laborers.

— Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 15 Aug. 2026
This entails handing out thousands of patronage jobs to rabbis, bureaucrats, undertakers, and inspectors.

— Bernard Avishai, New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2026

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