gravedigger

English

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Noun

gravedigger (plural gravediggers)

1. A person employed to dig graves.
2. A necrophore, or burying beetle.

Translations

a person employed to dig graves

• Breton: bezier (br) m
• Catalan: enterramorts (ca)
• Danish: graver (da)
• Esperanto: tombisto (eo)
• French: fossoyeur (fr)
• German: Totengräber (de)
• Italian: becchino (it)
• Jèrriais: fôssyi m

• Polish: grabarz (pl) m
• Portuguese: coveiro (pt)
• Romanian: groparul (ro)
• Russian: моги́льщик (ru) (mogíl'ščik) m 
• Spanish: sepulturero (es)
• Swedish: dödgrävare (sv)
• Turkish: mezarcı (tr)

Usage notes

• Not used of a modern cemetery worker who uses a mechanical digger.

See also

• sexton