Definitions for funeral director

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

fu′neral direc`tor(n.)

  1. a person, usu. a licensed embalmer, who supervises or conducts the preparation of the dead for burial and directs or arranges funerals.

    Category: Common Vocabulary

Origin of funeral director:

1885–90, Amer.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. mortician, undertaker, funeral undertaker, funeral director(noun)

    one whose business is the management of funerals

Wiktionary

  1. funeral director(Noun)

    An undertaker, one who arranges funerals


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