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Webster 1913 Edition

Gravedigger

Grave′digˊger

,

Noun.

1.

A digger of graves.

2.

(Zool.)

See

Burying beetle

, under

,

Verb.

T.

Definition 2024

gravedigger

gravedigger

English

Noun

gravedigger ‎(plural gravediggers)

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

Translations

a person employed to dig graves

Aromanian: grupar m
Breton: bezier (br) m
Bulgarian: гробар m ‎(grobar)
Catalan: enterramorts (ca) m, f
Danish: graver (da) c
Dutch: grafdelver m
Esperanto: tombisto
Finnish: haudankaivaja (fi)
French: fossoyeur (fr) m
German: Totengräber (de) m
Irish: reiligire m

Italian: becchino (it) m
Norman: fôssyi m (Jersey)
Polish: grabarz (pl) m
Portuguese: coveiro (pt) m
Romanian: gropar (ro) m, săpător (ro) m
Russian: моги́льщик (ru) m ‎(mogílʹščik)
Scottish Gaelic: adhlacair m, cladhaire m, maor m
Spanish: sepulturero (es) m
Swedish: dödgrävare c
Turkish: mezarcı (tr)
Yiddish: באַגרעבער m ‎(bagreber)

A necrophore, or burying beetle

Bulgarian: бръмбар-гробар m ‎(brǎmbar-grobar)

Romanian: gropar (ro) m, necrofor (ro) m

Usage notes

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

See also

sexton