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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun teller has 4 senses
- teller(n = noun.person) edward teller - United States physicist (born in Hungary) who worked on the first atom bomb and the first hydrogen bomb (1908-2003); Array is a kind of nuclear physicist
- teller(n = noun.person) vote counter - an official appointed to count the votes (especially in legislative assembly); Array has particulars: canvasser
- teller(n = noun.person) bank clerk, cashier - an employee of a bank who receives and pays out money; Array is a kind of banker
- teller(n = noun.person) narrator, storyteller - someone who tells a story; Array has particulars: anecdotist, raconteur, fabulist, griot
is a kind of functionary, official
is a kind of speaker, talker, utterer, verbaliser, verbalizer
Derived forms verb tell3, verb tell1
CIDE DICTIONARY
teller, n.
- One who tells, relates, or communicates; an informer, narrator, or describer. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- An employee of a bank who receives money paid in, and pays money out, and makes records of such transactions. [1913 Webster]
- One who is appointed to count the votes given in a legislative body, public meeting, assembly, etc. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
teller, n.
1 a person employed to receive and pay out money in a bank etc.
2 a person who counts (votes).
3 a person who tells esp. stories (a teller of tales).
1 a person employed to receive and pay out money in a bank etc.
2 a person who counts (votes).
3 a person who tells esp. stories (a teller of tales).
Derivative
tellership n.
THESAURUS
teller
adviser, announcer, annunciator, authority, bank clerk, bank manager, bank officer, bank president, banker, banking executive, bill broker, cambist, cashier, channel, communicant, communicator, discounter, enlightener, expert witness, gossipmonger, grapevine, informant, information center, information medium, informer, interviewee, investment banker, loan officer, money broker, money changer, money dealer, moneylender, moneymonger, monitor, mouthpiece, newsmonger, note broker, notifier, press, public relations officer, publisher, radio, reporter, source, spokesman, television, tipster, tout, trust officer, witnessROGET THESAURUS
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Treasurer
N treasurer, bursar, bursary, purser, purse bearer, cash keeper, banker, depositary, questor, receiver, steward, trustee, accountant, Accountant General, almoner, liquidator, paymaster, cashier, teller, cambist, money changer, financier, Secretary of the Treasury, Chancellor of the Exchequer, minister of finance.Information
N information, enlightenment, acquaintance, knowledge, publicity, data, communication, intimation, notice, notification, enunciation, annunciation, announcement, communiqu_e, representation, round robin, presentment, case, estimate, specification, report, advice, monition, news, return, account, statement, mention, acquainting, instruction, outpouring, intercommunication, communicativeness, informant, authority, teller, intelligencer, reporter, exponent, mouthpiece, informer, eavesdropper, delator, detective, sleuth, mouchard, spy, newsmonger, messenger, amicus curiae, valet de place, cicerone, pilot, guide, guidebook, handbook, vade mecum, manual, map, plan, chart, gazetteer, itinerary, hint, suggestion, innuendo, inkling, whisper, passing word, word in the ear, subaudition, cue, byplay, gesture, gentle hint, broad hint, verbum sapienti, a word to the wise, insinuation, information theory, bit, byte, word, doubleword, quad word, paragraph, segment, magnetic media, paper medium, optical media, random access memory, RAM, read-only memory, ROM, write once read mostly memory, WORM, informed, communique, reported, published, expressive, explicit plain spoken, (artless), nuncupative, nuncupatory, declaratory, expository, enunciative, communicative, communicatory, from information received, a little bird told me, I heard it through the grapevine.
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