Associations to the word «Coroner»

Wiktionary

CORONER, noun. A public official who presides over an inquest into unnatural deaths.
CORONER, noun. (Canada) (US) A medical doctor who performs autopsies and determines time and cause of death from a scientific standpoint.
CORONER, noun. The administrative head of a sheading.

Dictionary definition

CORONER, noun. A public official who investigates by inquest any death not due to natural causes.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats