mortician
英 [mɔː'tɪʃ(ə)n]
美[mɔr'tɪʃən]
- n. （美）殡葬业者；丧事承办人
词态变化
复数: morticians;
中文词源
mortician 殡葬业从业者
来自拉丁语mors,死亡，死的，词源同mortal,murder.引申词义殡葬业从业者。
英文词源
- mortician (n.)
- 1895, American English, coined from mortuary + -ician, as in physician.
An undertaker will no longer be known as an "undertaker and embalmer." In the future he will be known as the "mortician." This was decided on at the second day's meeting of the Funeral Directors' Association of Kentucky, which was held in Louisville. ["The Medical Herald," July 1895]
双语例句
- 1. Now he was toto wait until morning and get the mortician to bring him a ladder.
- 现在,他不得不等到天亮了,然后让墓地的工作人员给他拿个梯子来.
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