teller
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English tellere (“one who counts or enumerates; one who recounts or relates; teller”), equivalent to tell (verb) + -er.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈtɛlə/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (US) IPA(key): /ˈtɛləɹ/
- Rhymes: -ɛlə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: tell‧er
Noun
[edit]teller (plural tellers)
- A person who tells stories.
- (banking, chiefly US) A bank clerk who receives and pays out money.
- Synonym: cashier
- 2025, Santanu Bhattacharya, Deviants, Fig Tree, page 93:
- 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.
- (more generally) A cashier at any place of business.
- 2007, Joseph T. Wells, Corporate Fraud Handbook: Prevention and Detection, page 107:
- 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.
- 2013, Alastair Henry, Awakening in the Northwest Territories:
- 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.
- 2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 60:
- The main street was shuttered; the only sign of life she detected was behind the window of the petrol station, where the teller was counting the day's cash balance into the till.
- (banking) Synonym of automated teller machine.
- Synonyms: cash machine, ATM
- A person who counts the votes in an election.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]person who tells stories
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bank clerk who receives and pays out money
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automated teller machine — see automated teller machine
person who counts the votes in an election
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Anagrams
[edit]Crimean Tatar
[edit]Noun
[edit]teller
- nominative plural of tel
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]teller m (plural tellers, diminutive tellertje n)
- (mathematics) numerator (the number or expression written above the line in a fraction)
- someone who counts
- any device that displays numerical information such as a Geiger counter or a tachometer
Antonyms
[edit]- noemer (“denominator”)
Descendants
[edit]- → Indonesian: pembilang (“(mathematics) numerator”) (semantic loan)
- → Indonesian: teller (“someone who counts”)
Indonesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English teller, from Middle English tellere (“one who counts or enumerates; one who recounts or relates; teller”). Standard spelling retain double l to avoid confusion with word teler.
Pronunciation
[edit]- Hyphenation: tel‧ler
Noun
[edit]teller (plural teller-teller)
Further reading
[edit]- “teller”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From the verb telle.
Noun
[edit]teller m (definite singular telleren, indefinite plural tellere, definite plural tellerne)
- (arithmetic) numerator (the number or expression written above the line in a fraction)
Antonyms
[edit]- nevner (“denominator”)
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]See also
[edit]- teljar (Nynorsk)
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]teller
References
[edit]- “teller” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Turkish
[edit]Noun
[edit]teller
- nominative plural of tel
Categories:
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms suffixed with -er
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/ɛlə(ɹ)
- Rhymes:English/ɛlə(ɹ)/2 syllables
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Banking
- American English
- English terms with quotations
- en:Occupations
- en:People
- Crimean Tatar non-lemma forms
- Crimean Tatar noun forms
- Dutch terms suffixed with -er (agent noun)
- Dutch terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Dutch/ɛlər
- Rhymes:Dutch/ɛlər/2 syllables
- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch nouns
- Dutch nouns with plural in -s
- Dutch masculine nouns
- nl:Mathematics
- Indonesian terms borrowed from English
- Indonesian unadapted borrowings from English
- Indonesian terms derived from English
- Indonesian terms derived from Middle English
- Indonesian lemmas
- Indonesian nouns
- id:Banking
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål masculine nouns
- nb:Arithmetic
- Norwegian Bokmål non-lemma forms
- Norwegian Bokmål verb forms
- Turkish non-lemma forms
- Turkish noun forms