Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who tells.
- noun A bank employee who receives and pays out money.
- noun An automated teller machine.
- noun A person appointed to count votes in a legislative assembly.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the successive strokes on a church bell rung to tell the sex and age of a person who has just died.
- noun One who counts or enumerates.
- noun A functionary in a banking establishment whose business it is to receive or to pay money over the counter: as, a receiving teller; a paying teller.
- noun One who tells, recounts, narrates, relates, or communicates something to others: as, a story-teller.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who tells, relates, or communicates; an informer, narrator, or describer.
- noun 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.
- noun An employee of a bank who receives money paid in, and pays money out, and makes records of such transactions.
- noun One who is appointed to count the votes given in a legislative body, public meeting, assembly, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who
tells stories - noun a
bank clerk whoreceives andpays outmoney - noun An
automated teller machine - noun A person who
counts thevotes in anelection
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun United States physicist (born in Hungary) who worked on the first atom bomb and the first hydrogen bomb (1908-2003)
- noun an official appointed to count the votes (especially in legislative assembly)
- noun someone who tells a story
- noun an employee of a bank who receives and pays out money
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Examples
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If the teller is a member of the oppre ssing group, the humor will more likely be seen as a form of oppression.
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If the teller is a member of the oppre ssing group, the humor will more likely be seen as a form of oppression.
Holocaust Humour Seems Insensitive, to Say the Least : Law is Cool 2008
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Lashing back at the joke-teller is a way to warn him or her not to make that insulting assumption again.
My review of "Opera for Skeptics"... ewillett 2009
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He is also not just a Benin "teller of war stories" since he has recently lobbied himself into chairmanship of the Hattiesburg Veterans 'Committee and has a Lamar
Heroes or Villains? 2010
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Sounds like Dave the Truth teller is your typical conservative trailor trash with a elementry education.
Republicans raising cash to counter-program ABC Obama special 2009
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Punishing the failed joke-teller is a way to discourage that person from similarly violating the social contract in the future.
My review of "Opera for Skeptics"... ewillett 2009
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Zel, a fortune-teller, is aided in her prognostication by a band of ghosts, but when a mysterious light appears, she may have to give up the only family she knows.
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Harry Erskine, still working as a fortune teller, is drawn yet again into supernatural events beyond his control.
Graham Masterton: Ghosts (and demons) of the past « Skulls in the Stars 2008
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The goal of the joke teller is to improvise an act that is as creatively foul as possible.
Archive 2005-09-01 Ed 2005
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The goal of the joke teller is to improvise an act that is as creatively foul as possible.
All we need is Blog? Ed 2005
dontcry commented on the word teller
Teller
that
you're always gonna love her...
Teller
that
you're never gonna leave her...
Teller,
teller,
teller,
teller right now.
June 6, 2008
ruzuzu commented on the word teller
"One of the successive strokes on a church bell rung to tell the sex and age of a person who has just died." --Cent. Dict.
July 10, 2011
milosrdenstvi commented on the word teller
Also tailor (cf. Dorothy L. Sayers novel The Nine Tailors, containing much fascinating English bell-ringing lore).
July 10, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word teller
I like Dorothy Sayers and I like bell-ringing lore. Thanks, Milos.
July 10, 2011
reesetee commented on the word teller
"Bell-Ringing Lore" sounds like a potential list. :-)
July 10, 2011
milosrdenstvi commented on the word teller
As I recall there were many very interesting words of bell-ringing lore in that book. Alas, I cannot remember.
July 11, 2011