undertakers
葬儀屋
解説 Definition
葬儀の手配や遺体の処理を行う専門業者のこと。
Undertakers are people whose job is to prepare dead bodies and arrange funerals. The word is used in the context of death, funerals, and related services. In modern English, funeral directors is often a more common and polite term.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
まず undertake「引き受ける」を思い出すと、undertaker はもともと「仕事を引き受ける人」です。そこから『遺族に代わって、葬儀や埋葬の段取りを一式引き受ける人』と結びつけると定着しやすくなります。単なる take ではなく undertake というまとまりで見るのがコツ。文脈は funeral, burial, coffin, funeral home などと一緒に出やすいです。なお現代では、より丁寧で中立的な funeral director のほうが好まれる場面もあるので、その対比も一緒に覚えると混同しにくくなります。
Remember `undertake`, which means to take responsibility for something. An `undertaker` was originally a person who undertakes a job, and this word became strongly connected with funeral work. Link it with words like `funeral`, `burial`, and `coffin`. That context makes the meaning easier to hold.
例文
The undertakers arrived early in the morning to prepare for the funeral.
葬儀屋は葬儀の準備のために朝早くに到着した。
In the small town, the family of undertakers had been serving the community for generations.
その小さな町では、葬儀屋の一家が何世代にもわたって地域に奉仕してきた。
The undertakers handled all the arrangements with great care and professionalism.
葬儀屋はすべての手配を細やかな配慮とプロ意識で行った。
undertakers の類義語・関連語
undertakers の語源・成り立ち Etymology
under（下に）+ take（引き受ける）+ -er（人）の複合語で、「仕事を引き受ける人」が原義。17世紀頃から葬儀の手配を引き受ける専門業者を指すようになった。関連語 undertake（引き受ける）、undertaking（事業・葬儀）。現代では funeral director が丁寧な表現として好まれる。
Undertakers comes from undertake, literally "take upon oneself," plus the agent ending -er and the plural -s. In earlier English, an undertaker was simply a person who took on a task or business. From the 17th century, it became used especially for people who took charge of funeral arrangements; related words include undertake and undertaking.
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