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diener

/ˈdiːnə(ɹ)/

diener noun: a morgue worker responsible for handling, moving, and cleaning the corpse.

Noun

diener (plural dieners)

  1. A morgue worker responsible for handling, moving, and cleaning the corpse.
    • Before dawn every morning, the dieners would array the day's corpses on the tables in the small, unventilated autopsy room, ready for the medical examiners to splay them out under unforgiving, hot lamps that left patches of dark in the corners.2016, Vincent Di Maio, Morgue: A Life in Death, page 55

Forms of diener

pluraldieners

Origin of diener

From German Diener (“servant”).

Questions about diener

What does diener mean?
Diener means a morgue worker responsible for handling, moving, and cleaning the corpse.
What part of speech is diener?
Diener is a noun.
How do you pronounce diener?
Diener is pronounced /ˈdiːnə(ɹ)/.
What is the plural of diener?
The plural of diener is dieners.

Words near diener in the dictionary

  1. diencephalons
  2. diencephalospinal
  3. diene
  4. dienedioate
  5. dienedioates
  6. diener
  7. dienerite
  8. dieners
  9. dienes
  10. Dieneses
  11. dienestrol

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