Gravekeeper

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A graveyard attendant.

    "This cemetery had a gravekeeper who kept the graves from getting muddled together with weeds and brambles."

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"This cemetery had a gravekeeper who kept the graves from getting muddled together with weeds and brambles."

Etymology

From grave + keeper.

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