noun
Meaning 1
A person employed to dig graves.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
gravedigger
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹeɪvˌdɪɡ.ə(ɹ)/
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General-American: /ˈɡɹeɪvˌdɪɡ.əɹ/
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noun
Meaning 2
A necrophore, or burying beetle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
a person who earns a living by digging graves
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: laborer, manual laborer, labourer, jack
History
Etymology
From grave + digger.
Across languages
Translations
74 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Aromanian: grupar — a person employed to dig graves
- Asturian: entierrador — a person employed to dig graves
- Asturian: enterrador — a person employed to dig graves
- Asturian: sepoltureru — a person employed to dig graves
- Belarusian: магі́льшчык (mahílʹščyk) — a person employed to dig graves
- Belarusian: далако́п (dalakóp) — a person employed to dig graves
- Belarusian: граба́р (hrabár) — a person employed to dig graves
- Breton: bezier — a person employed to dig graves
- Bulgarian: гроба́р (grobár) — a person employed to dig graves
- Catalan: enterramorts — a person employed to dig graves
- Czech: hrobník — a person employed to dig graves
- Czech: hrobař — a person employed to dig graves
- Danish: graver — a person employed to dig graves
- Dutch: grafdelver — a person employed to dig graves
- Dutch: doodgraver — a person employed to dig graves
- Esperanto: tombisto — a person employed to dig graves
- Estonian: hauakaevaja — a person employed to dig graves
- Finnish: haudankaivaja — a person employed to dig graves
- French: fossoyeur — a person employed to dig graves
- Galician: coveiro — a person employed to dig graves
- Galician: enterramortos — a person employed to dig graves
- German: Totengräber — a person employed to dig graves
- Greek: νεκροθάφτης (nekrotháftis) — a person employed to dig graves
- Ancient Greek: ταφεύς (tapheús) — a person employed to dig graves
- Ancient Greek: νεκροθάπτης (nekrotháptēs) — a person employed to dig graves
- Hungarian: sírásó — a person employed to dig graves
- Irish: reiligire — a person employed to dig graves
- Italian: becchino — a person employed to dig graves
- Macedonian: гро́бар (gróbar) — a person employed to dig graves
- Neapolitan: schiattamuorto — a person employed to dig graves
- Norman: fôssyi — a person employed to dig graves
- Norwegian Bokmål: graver — a person employed to dig graves
- Norwegian Nynorsk: gravar — a person employed to dig graves
- Polish: grabarz — a person employed to dig graves
- Polish: grobownik — a person employed to dig graves
- Polish: kopidół — a person employed to dig graves
- Old Polish: grabarz — a person employed to dig graves
- Old Polish: grobnik — a person employed to dig graves
- Old Polish: kopacz — a person employed to dig graves
- Old Polish: relikwiarz — a person employed to dig graves
- Portuguese: coveiro — a person employed to dig graves
- Romanian: gropar — a person employed to dig graves
- Romanian: săpător — a person employed to dig graves
- Russian: моги́льщик (mogílʹščik) — a person employed to dig graves
- Russian: гробокопа́тель (grobokopátelʹ) — a person employed to dig graves
- Scottish Gaelic: adhlacair — a person employed to dig graves
- Scottish Gaelic: cladhaire — a person employed to dig graves
- Scottish Gaelic: maor — a person employed to dig graves
- Serbo-Croatian: гро̀ба̄р — a person employed to dig graves
- Serbo-Croatian: gròbār — a person employed to dig graves
- Slovak: hrobár — a person employed to dig graves
- Slovak: hrobník — a person employed to dig graves
- Slovak: hrobárka — a person employed to dig graves
- Slovene: grobar — a person employed to dig graves
- Spanish: sepulturero — a person employed to dig graves
- Swedish: dödgrävare — a person employed to dig graves
- Tagalog: sepulturero — a person employed to dig graves
- Tewa: pihkâa — a person employed to dig graves
- Turkish: mezarcı — a person employed to dig graves
- Ukrainian: моги́льник (mohýlʹnyk) — a person employed to dig graves
- Ukrainian: гроба́р (hrobár) — a person employed to dig graves
- Welsh: torrwr beddau — a person employed to dig graves
- Yiddish: באַגרעבער (bagreber) — a person employed to dig graves
- Bulgarian: бръмбар-гробар (brǎmbar-grobar) — A necrophore, or burying beetle
- Czech: hrobařík — A necrophore, or burying beetle
- Dutch: doodgraver — A necrophore, or burying beetle
- French: nécrophore — A necrophore, or burying beetle
- German: Totengräber — A necrophore, or burying beetle
- Hungarian: temetőbogár — A necrophore, or burying beetle
- Hungarian: nicrophorus — A necrophore, or burying beetle
- Romanian: gropar — A necrophore, or burying beetle
- Romanian: necrofor — A necrophore, or burying beetle
- Swedish: dödgrävare — A necrophore, or burying beetle
- Ukrainian: моги́льник (mohýlʹnyk) — A necrophore, or burying beetle