teller
Syllables: tell·er/ˈtɛlə/US/ˈtɛləɹ/
teller noun: a person who tells stories.
Noun
teller (plural tellers)
- A person who tells stories.
- A bank clerk who receives and pays out money.
- Sukumar was thirty years old, four years into his bank job, where he’d moved up to the role of teller, turning up to work on time every day, counting the money, making the deposits, entering in the ledger, filing the reports.2025, Santanu Bhattacharya, Deviants, Fig Tree, page 93
- Synonyms:
- cashier
- A cashier at any place of business.
- In the case discussed above, for example, the employee who stole money did so by waiting until another teller was on break, then logging on to that teller's register, ringing a “no sale,” and taking the cash.2007, Joseph T. Wells, Corporate Fraud Handbook: Prevention and Detection, page 107
- The young femail teller fingered the prices into the cash register at great speed with great dexterity while simultaneously holding a conversation with the teller in the next lane.2013, Alastair Henry, Awakening in the Northwest Territories
- Synonym of automated teller machine.
- Synonyms:
- cash machine, ATM, automated teller machine
- A person who counts the votes in an election.
Proper noun capitalized: Teller
Teller
- A surname.
- A tiny city in Nome Census Area, Alaska, United States, named after Henry M. Teller.
teller meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
teller in Hindi
- बताने वाला
teller in Tamil
- வங்கிப் பணப் பொறுப்பாளர், காசாளர்
teller in Marathi
- सांगणारा
teller in Urdu
- رائے شمار, تحویل دار
More languagesFewer languages
- teller in Telugu
- టెల్లర్
- teller in Malayalam
- കാഷ്യർ, കണക്കപ്പിള്ള, ഖജാൻജി, കോശനായകൻ
- teller in Kannada
- ಕೊಗೆಗ, ಹೇಳುಗ, ಎಣಿಸುಗ, ಸರಾಫ
- teller in Punjabi
- ਦੱਸਣ ਵਾਲਾ
- teller in Gujarati
- કહેનાર
- teller in Malay
- juruwang, pengira undi
- teller in Indonesian
- pengisah, teller
Examples of teller in a sentence
- "Cross my palm with silver and I'll tell you your fortune," said the fortune teller.
- The bank teller counted out five twenty-dollar bills and gave them to me.
- The touchpoints in retail banking include tellers and ATMs.
Synonyms of teller
Forms of teller
| plural | tellers |
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Origin of teller
From Middle English tellere (“one who counts or enumerates; one who recounts or relates; teller”), equivalent to tell (verb) + -er.
Words formed from teller
Phrases with teller
Words that rhyme with teller
- cellar
- smeller
- speller
- impeller
- stellar
- seller
- acerebellar
- anticerebellar
- cerebellar
- cerebrocerebellar
- corticocerebellar
- corticothalamocerebellar
31 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- cuneocerebellar
- dweller
- extracerebellar
- frontocerebellar
- hemicerebellar
- hypothalamocerebellar
- intracerebellar
- medicerebellar
- neocerebellar
- noncerebellar
- olivocerebellar
- olivopontocerebellar
- palaeocerebellar
- pancerebellar
- paracerebellar
- parietocerebellar
- pontocerebellar
- precerebellar
- rappeller
- repeller
- reticulocerebellar
- retrocerebellar
- skeller
- spinocerebellar
- steller
- supracerebellar
- tectocerebellar
- transcerebellar
- trigeminocerebellar
- vestibulocerebellar
- yeller
Questions about teller
- What does teller mean?
- Teller means a person who tells stories.
- What is teller in Hindi?
- Teller in Hindi is बताने वाला. See Teller meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is teller?
- Teller can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce teller?
- Teller is pronounced /ˈtɛlə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of teller?
- The plural of teller is tellers.
Words near teller in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: teller (page history and authors); Teller (page history and authors); teller (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); teller (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); teller (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); teller (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); teller (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); teller (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); teller (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); teller (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); teller (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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