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Undertaker vs Sexton - What's the difference?

undertaker | sexton |

As nouns the difference between undertaker and sexton

is that undertaker is a funeral director; someone whose business is to manage funerals, burials and cremations while sexton is a church official who looks after a church building and its graveyard and may act as a gravedigger and bell-ringer.

As a proper noun Sexton is

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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

    sexton

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A church official who looks after a church building and its graveyard and may act as a gravedigger and bell-ringer.

    • Synonyms

    * sacristan