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Webster 1913 Edition


Teller

Tell′er

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Noun.
1.
One who tells, relates, or communicates; an informer, narrator, or describer.
2.
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.
4.
One who is appointed to count the votes given in a legislative body, public meeting, assembly, etc.

Webster 1828 Edition


Teller

TELL'ER

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Noun.
One that tells, relates or communicates the knowledge of something.
1.
One who numbers.
2.
In the exchequer of England, there are four officers called tellers, whose business is to receive all moneys due to the crown, and throw down a bill through a pipe into the tally-court, where it is received by the auditor's clerks, who write the words of the bill on a tally, and deliver it to be entered by the clerk of the pell. The tally is then split by the two deputy chamberlains, who have their seals, and while the senior deputy reads the one part, the junior examines the other with the other two clerks. [This word is supposed to be from tally, being in ancient records written tallier.]

Definition 2024


Teller

Teller

See also: teller and tełłer

German

Noun

Teller m (genitive Tellers, plural Teller)

  1. plate, dish

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German Low German

Etymology

From Middle Low German teller (tellor, tallior), from Middle French tailloir, ultimately from Latin talea.

Noun

Teller m (plural Tellers)

  1. plate; dinner plate

teller

teller

See also: Teller and tełłer

English

Noun

teller (plural tellers)

  1. A person who tells stories.
  2. (chiefly US) A bank clerk who receives and pays out money.
  3. An automated teller machine.
  4. A person who counts the votes in an election.

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Dutch

From tellen + -er.

Pronunciation

Noun

teller m (plural tellers, diminutive tellertje n)

  1. (mathematics) numerator
  2. someone who counts
  3. any device that displays numerical information such as a Geiger counter or a tachometer

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From the verb telle

Noun

teller m (definite singular telleren, indefinite plural tellere, definite plural tellerne)

  1. (arithmetic) a numerator (in a fraction)
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Etymology 2

Verb

teller

  1. present tense of telle

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Turkish

Noun

teller

  1. definite plural of tel