cor‧o‧ner /ˈkɒrənə $ ˈkɔːrənər, ˈkɑː-/
noun [countable][
Date: 1200-1300;
Language: Anglo-French;
Origin: 'royal official', from Old French corone; ⇒ crown1]
an official whose job is to discover the cause of someone’s death, especially if they died in a sudden or unusual way:
The coroner recorded a verdict of death by natural causes. the coroner’s court [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲