Associations to the word «Undertaker»

Wiktionary

UNDERTAKER, noun. A funeral director; someone whose business is to manage funerals, burials and cremations
UNDERTAKER, noun. (historical) A person receiving land in Ireland during the Elizabethan era, so named because they gave an undertaking to abide by several conditions regarding marriage, to be loyal to the crown, and to use English as their spoken language.

Dictionary definition

UNDERTAKER, noun. One whose business is the management of funerals.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats