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. See cashier
   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. TellerEdward19082003MUSHungarianSCIENCE: physicist Edward. 1908–2003, US nuclear physicist, born in Hungary: a major contributor to the development of the hydrogen bomb (1952)

Derived Forms

• ˈtellerˌship, noun

Other Words From

• teller·ship noun
• under·teller noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of teller¹

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

Example Sentences

He transferred to a job in Tuscaloosa, as a teller at Compass Bank, with health insurance he could sometimes afford.

From ProPublica

Now, reassemble the fortune teller, slip it back over your fingers, and turn to whoever you’re with.

From Popular-Science

They actually led to more teller jobs as consumers, lured by the convenience of cash machines, began visiting banks more often.

From Time

ATMs did not immediately decrease the number of bank tellers, for instance.

From Time

Banks opened more branches and hired tellers to handle tasks that are beyond the capacity of ATMs.

From Time

He was a magician, an invisible teller of tales with the power to make my sides ache without telling a single joke.

From The Daily Beast

In fact, Teller was competing with Oppenheimer for resources.

From The Daily Beast

Onscreen, Teller is a bit like a young Vince Vaughn—gregarious, charming, and a tad suspicious.

From The Daily Beast

Teller took piano lessons as a kid, but quit at 14 when the lessons got “too strict.”

From The Daily Beast

Teller will reteam with his Whiplash director Chazelle on La La Land, which starts shooting in the spring.

From The Daily Beast

This last, which is the work of one now grown into womanhood and no longer a story-teller, is interesting in many ways.

From Project Gutenberg

Suppose your package is stolen by the cashier or paying teller, is the bank responsible?

From Project Gutenberg

Was moving even before the teller's slumping body hit the floor.

From Project Gutenberg

Stevenson knew well who was telling the story; David is too good a story-teller to tell what he could not know.

From Project Gutenberg

Meg, the fortune-teller, remained where he had left her several moments watching him with a strange, catlike intentness.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• bank employee
• cashier