teller
Plural: tellers
Noun
- A bank employee who handles customer transactions.
- United States physicist (born in Hungary) who worked on the first atom bomb and the first hydrogen bomb (1908-2003)
- an official appointed to count the votes (especially in legislative assembly)
- an employee of a bank who receives and pays out money
- someone who tells a story
- A person who tells stories.
- A bank clerk who receives and pays out money.
- A cashier at any place of business.
- Synonym of automated teller machine.
- A person who counts the votes in an election.
Examples
- The Scrabble player acted as a teller of tales, each word telling a part of his strategy.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English tellere (“one who counts or enumerates; one who recounts or relates; teller”), equivalent to tell (verb) + -er.
Synonyms
bank clerk, cashier, Edward Teller, narrator, storyteller, vote counter, ATM, automated teller machine, cash machine
Scrabble Score: 6
teller: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordteller: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
teller: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary