Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

resurrection man

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.76 in modern English

Syllables: res-ur-rec-tion -man
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

5

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A man who sells cadavers to anatomists, surgeons, etc., especially by exhuming corpses from graves; a graverobber.

Example Sentences

"Persons (under the name of resurrection-men) continue their business, getting from 1 guinea to 5 or 6, according to the value set upon the corpse they take up."
"Earlier exhumations seem to have caused very little popular concern;... but later... the trade of ‘resurrection man’ became commoner, and attracted the lowest dregs of the vicious classes."

Etymology

resurrection (“the act of rising from the dead and becoming alive again”) + man

Inflected Forms

resurrection men (plural) resurrection-man (alternative)

Synonyms

burker Burkite resurrectioner resurrectionist bodysnatcher body snatcher

Questions

What does resurrection man mean?: A man who sells cadavers to anatomists, surgeons, etc., especially by exhuming corpses from graves; a graverobber.
Where does resurrection man come from?: resurrection (“the act of rising from the dead and becoming alive again”) + man

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