diener

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/ˈdiːnə(ɹ)/

noun

A morgue worker responsible for handling, moving, and cleaning the corpse.

OriginGerman Diener →
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Meanings

noundiener (plural dieners)

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

Origin

  1. GermanDiener“servant”
  2. Englishdiener

From German Diener (“servant”).

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

denierEdirneNiedernereidNeider
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APA

diener. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/diener

MLA

“diener.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/diener. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “diener,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/diener.

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