teller

From Middle English tellere (“one who counts or enumerates; one who recounts or relates; teller”), equivalent to tell (verb) +‎ -er.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛlə/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛləɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɛlə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: tell‧er

teller (plural tellers)

1. A person who tells stories.
2. (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.

3. (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.

4. (banking) Synonym of automated teller machine.

   Synonyms: cash machine, ATM

5. A person who counts the votes in an election.

• retell

teller

1. nominative plural of tel

From tellen +‎ -er.

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• Rhymes: -ɛlər
• Hyphenation: tel‧ler

teller m (plural tellers, diminutive tellertje n)

1. (mathematics) numerator (the number or expression written above the line in a fraction)
2. someone who counts
3. any device that displays numerical information such as a Geiger counter or a tachometer

• noemer (“denominator”)

• → Indonesian: pembilang (“(mathematics) numerator”) (semantic loan)
• → Indonesian: teller (“someone who counts”)

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.

• Hyphenation: tel‧ler

teller (plural teller-teller)

1. (banking) teller: a bank clerk who receives and pays out money

   Synonym: juruwang (Standard Malay)

• “teller” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From the verb telle.

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

1. (arithmetic) numerator (the number or expression written above the line in a fraction)

• nevner (“denominator”)

• geigerteller
• turteller

• brøk

• teljar (Nynorsk)

teller

1. present tense of telle

• “teller” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

teller

1. nominative plural of tel