English
Etymology
From grave + digger.
Pronunciation
Noun
gravedigger (plural gravediggers)
- A person employed to dig graves.
- A necrophore, or burying beetle.
Usage notes
- Not used of a modern cemetery worker who actually uses a mechanical digger.
Translations
a person employed to dig graves
- Aromanian: grupar m
- Asturian: entierrador, enterrador, sepoltureru
- Belarusian: магі́льшчык m (mahílʹščyk), далако́п m (dalakóp), граба́р m (hrabár)
- Breton: bezier (br) m
- Bulgarian: гроба́р m (grobár)
- Catalan: enterramorts (ca) m or f
- Czech: hrobník (cs) m, hrobař (cs) m
- Danish: graver (da) c
- Dutch: grafdelver (nl) m, doodgraver (nl) m
- Esperanto: tombisto
- Estonian: hauakaevaja
- Finnish: haudankaivaja (fi)
- French: fossoyeur (fr) m
- Galician: coveiro m, enterramortos m
- German: Totengräber (de) m
- Greek: νεκροθάφτης (el) m (nekrotháftis)
- Ancient: ταφεύς m (tapheús), νεκροθάπτης m (nekrotháptēs)
- Hungarian: sírásó (hu)
- Irish: reiligire m
- Italian: becchino (it) m
- Macedonian: гро́бар m (gróbar)
- Neapolitan: schiattamuorto m
- Norman: fôssyi m (Jersey)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: graver (no) m
- Nynorsk: gravar m
- Polish: grabarz (pl) m, grobownik m, kopidół (pl) m
- Old Polish: grabarz m, grobnik m, kopacz m, relikwiarz m
- Portuguese: coveiro (pt) m
- Romanian: gropar (ro) m, săpător (ro) m
- Russian: моги́льщик (ru) m (mogílʹščik), гробокопа́тель (ru) m (grobokopátelʹ)
- Scottish Gaelic: adhlacair m, cladhaire m, maor m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: гро̀ба̄р m
- Roman: gròbār (sh) m
- Slovak: hrobár (sk) m, hrobník (sk) m, hrobárka f
- Slovene: grobar m
- Spanish: sepulturero (es) m
- Swedish: dödgrävare (sv) c
- Turkish: mezarcı (tr)
- Ukrainian: моги́льник m (mohýlʹnyk), гроба́р m (hrobár)
- Welsh: torrwr beddau m
- Yiddish: באַגרעבער m (bagreber)
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A necrophore, or burying beetle
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