teller

¹

[tel-er]

noun

1. a person or thing that tells, relates, or communicates; narrator.

   Grandpa was a great teller of tall, tall tales.

2. a person employed in a bank to receive or pay out money over the counter.

3. a person who tells, counts, or enumerates, as one appointed to count votes in a legislative body.

Teller

²

[tel-er]

noun

1. Edward, 1908–2003, U.S. physicist, born in Hungary.

teller

¹

/ ˈtɛlə /

noun

1. another name for cashier 1

2. a person appointed to count votes in a legislative body, assembly, etc

3. a person who tells; narrator

Teller

²

/ ˈtɛlə /

noun

1. Edward. 1908–2003, US nuclear physicist, born in Hungary: a major contributor to the development of the hydrogen bomb (1952)

Other Word Forms

• tellership noun
• underteller noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of teller¹

Middle English word dating back to 1300–50; tell ¹, -er ¹

Example Sentences

Those were her exact words, and it was the exact words of the curse upon the Ashtons that the fortune.teller had to know in order to undo it—or attempt to, at least.

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Bank tellers noted a sharp decline in deposits.

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The teller asked, “Are you going to do something fun with it?” in a conversational tone.

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After all, he mused, for the public to trust institutions, prosecutors “have to have integrity, you have to be a truth teller, and someone who can be trusted to do things for the right reasons.”

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As often happens, truth tellers weren’t really in short supply.

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Related Words

• cashier