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What is another word for gravediggers?

Pronunciation: [ɡɹˈe͡ɪvdɪɡəz] (IPA)

Gravediggers are the individuals whose job is to dig graves for the burial of the dead. There are many synonyms for gravediggers, including burial ground laborers, cemetery workers, undertakers, morticians, cemetery maintenance workers, funeral directors, graveyard attendants, and sepulcher caretakers. Each of these synonyms may refer to individuals who work in various aspects of funeral or burial services, including management of the cemetery grounds, handling of the deceased, and coordination of funeral arrangements. Regardless of the specific role, gravediggers and their synonyms play an important part in ensuring respectful and appropriate burial practices.
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What are the hypernyms for Gravediggers?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

  • Other hypernyms:

    undertakers, burial workers, cemetery workers.

Usage examples for Gravediggers

6 Along the French lines Death did not rest from his harvesting whatever the weather, and although for months there was no general advance on either side, not a day passed without new work for the surgeons, the stretcher-bearers, and the gravediggers.
"The Soul of the War"
Philip Gibbs
Shakesperian clowns are believed to be red rags to some experienced playwrights and accomplished wits of our own days: the porter in Macbeth, the gravediggers in Hamlet, the fool in Lear, even the humours in Love's Labour Lost and The Merchant of Venice have offended.
"A History of English Literature Elizabethan Literature"
George Saintsbury
If the established unions refused to assume the part of the gravediggers of capitalism, designed for them, as he believed, by the very logic of history, so much the worse for the established trade unions.
"A History of Trade Unionism in the United States"
Selig Perlman

Related words: cemetery caretaker, grave digger, cemetery worker, grave keeper, funeral director

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