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



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Word of the Day

19 June 2025

ROOTS

(noun) the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage; “his roots in Texas go back a long way”; “he went back to Sweden to search for his roots”; “his music has African roots”


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