classifier

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun a person who creates classifications
noun 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

From classify + -er.

Cuvier, the great classifier, divides the feathered tribe into six orders--birds of prey, passerines, climbers, gallinaceans, wading, and web-footed birds. — Adventures of a Young Naturalist, Lucien Biart
He has been with that Division over 32 years, having begun as a student fingerprint classifier and worked up to his present position. — Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, United States. Warren Commission
It was enough to drive the most ingenious classifier of the upper regions out of his mind, and to upset all his received ideas about botany. — A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Jules Verne

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