TELLER

narrator, storyteller, teller

(noun) someone who tells a story

teller, cashier, bank clerk

(noun) an employee of a bank who receives and pays out money

teller, vote counter

(noun) an official appointed to count the votes (especially in legislative assembly)

Teller, Edward Teller

(noun) United States physicist (born in Hungary) who worked on the first atom bomb and the first hydrogen bomb (1908-2003)

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Proper noun

Teller

A surname.

A tiny city in Nome Census Area, Alaska, United States, named after Henry M. Teller.

Anagrams

• retell

Etymology

Noun

teller (plural tellers)

A person who tells stories.

(banking, chiefly, US) A bank clerk who receives and pays out money.

Synonym: cashier

(banking) Initialism of automated teller machine.

Synonyms: cash machine, ATM

A person who counts the votes in an election.

Anagrams

• retell

Source: Wiktionary


Tell"er, n.

1. One who tells, relates, or communicates; an informer, narrator, or describer.

2. One of four officers of the English Exchequer, formerly appointed to receive moneys due to the king and to pay moneys payable by the king. Cowell.

3. An officer of a bank who receives and counts over money paid in, and pays money out on checks.

4. One who is appointed to count the votes given in a legislative body, public meeting, assembly, etc.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



RESET




Word of the Day

24 November 2024

CUNT

(noun) a person (usually but not necessarily a woman) who is thoroughly disliked; “she said her son thought Hillary was a bitch”


coffee icon

Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

coffee icon