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Gravedigger vs Undertaker - What's the difference?

gravedigger | undertaker |

As nouns the difference between gravedigger and undertaker

is that gravedigger is a person employed to dig graves while undertaker is a funeral director; someone whose business is to manage funerals, burials and cremations.

gravedigger

English

(wikipedia gravedigger)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person employed to dig graves.
  • A necrophore, or burying beetle.

    • Usage notes

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

    See also

    * sexton

    undertaker

    English

    Noun

  • A funeral director; someone whose business is to manage funerals, burials and cremations
  • (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.
    • In 1588 became an undertaker in the first Elizabethan plantation, receiving the forfeited Irish estate of Kilcolman Castle.

    Related terms

    * undertake * undertaking