Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun classifier
2 senses of classifier
Sense 1
classifier -- (a person who creates classifications)
=> thinker -- (someone who exercises the mind (usually in an effort to reach a decision))
Sense 2
classifier -- (a word or morpheme used in some languages in certain contexts (such as counting) to indicate the semantic class to which the counted item belongs)
=> word -- (a unit of language that native speakers can identify; "words are the blocks from which sentences are made"; "he hardly said ten words all morning")
=> morpheme -- (minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful units)