MEANING
A professional who prepares the dead and arranges funeral services.
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- local mortician
- mortician's office
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The mortician checked the paperwork before opening the casket.
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- mortician
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror / gothic. Forms: Singular mortician; plural morticians. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: moderately common.
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