Teller
['telə] or ['tɛlɚ]
Definition
(noun.) an employee of a bank who receives and pays out money.
(noun.) an official appointed to count the votes (especially in legislative assembly).
(noun.) United States physicist (born in Hungary) who worked on the first atom bomb and the first hydrogen bomb (1908-2003).
Checker: Wilmer--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who tells, relates, or communicates; an informer, narrator, or describer.
(n.) 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.
(n.) An officer of a bank who receives and counts over money paid in, and pays money out on checks.
(n.) One who is appointed to count the votes given in a legislative body, public meeting, assembly, etc.
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Examples
- Now, upon that matter the teller of modern history is obliged to be at once cautious and bold. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- At one time I thought she was a story-teller, and at another time that she was the pink of truth. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The young story-teller! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- We willingly did this, for this soldier was a great story-teller, and made the time pass quickly. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I am not the fortune-teller. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Why, if I was a fortune-teller-- Looking out of the towel, he caught my eye. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I am a fortune-teller. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I'm not much of a story-teller, said our visitor, nervously clasping and unclasping his great, strong hands. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- But I am not a fortune-teller, he said, letting his head drop into a festoon of towel, and towelling away at his two ears. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I feel as if the Fortune-teller was coming true, dear Pa, and the fair little man was turning out as was predicted. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- On going to the bank and passing in the check at the wicket of the paying teller, some brief remarks were made to him, which in his deafness he did not understand. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I do not believe in ogres, soothsayers, fortune tellers, or chicken-crut gypsy witchcraft. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- What the poets and story-tellers say--that the wicked prosper and the righteous are afflicted, or that justice is another's gain? Plato. The Republic.
- They are found in all European countries to-day; they are tinkers, pedlars, horse-dealers, showmen, fortune-tellers, and beggars. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Those, I said, which are narrated by Homer and Hesiod, and the rest of the poets, who have ever been the great story-tellers of mankind. Plato. The Republic.
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