painter meaning
EN
[ˈpeɪntə] [ˈpeɪntɚ] [-eɪntə(ɹ)] 
US EN Painter 
- NounPLpaintersSUF-er
- An artist who paints pictures.
- A laborer or workman who paints surfaces using a paintbrush or other means.
- (US) A mountain lion, by mispronunciation of "panther".
- OBS A chain or rope used to attach the shank of an anchor to the side of a ship when not in use.
- (nautical) A rope connected to the bow of a boat, used to attach it to e.g. a jetty or another boat.
- An artist who paints pictures.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- [ …] and making him think of those pallid jade-faced painters of Tokio who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness of motion.
- ... if Painter did ever abide in the old bark mill said to be anent his brother's freehold. — R.T. Smith, Ina Grove, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Vol. 81, Iss. 4; pg. 230, 25 pgs, 2005
- The painter put a splash of blue on the wall to make it more colorful
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of painter in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Morphemes
- Suffixes
- Words by suffix
- Words suffixed with -er
- Words suffixed with -er
- Words by suffix
- Suffixes
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Agent nouns
- Countable nouns
- Morphemes
- en paintery
- en painters
- en painterly
- en painteries
- en painterish
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "painter" is a morpheme, more specifically, a suffixe. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun and an agent noun.