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TELLER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who tells a story
Synonyms:
narrator; storyteller; teller
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("teller" is a kind of...):
speaker; talker; utterer; verbaliser; verbalizer (someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "teller"):
anecdotist; raconteur (a person skilled in telling anecdotes)
fabulist (a person who tells or invents fables)
griot (a storyteller in West Africa; perpetuates the oral traditions of a family or village)
Derivation:
tell (narrate or give a detailed account of)
tell (express in words)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An employee of a bank who receives and pays out money
Synonyms:
bank clerk; cashier; teller
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("teller" is a kind of...):
banker (a financier who owns or is an executive in a bank)
Sense 3
Meaning:
An official appointed to count the votes (especially in legislative assembly)
Synonyms:
teller; vote counter
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("teller" is a kind of...):
functionary; official (a worker who holds or is invested with an office)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "teller"):
canvasser (a person who takes or counts votes)
Sense 4
Meaning:
United States physicist (born in Hungary) who worked on the first atom bomb and the first hydrogen bomb (1908-2003)
Synonyms:
Edward Teller; Teller
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
nuclear physicist (a physicist who specializes in nuclear physics)
