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teller

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: teller

1
 n
someone who tells a story
2
 n
an employee of a bank who receives and pays out money
3
 n
an official appointed to count the votes (especially in legislative assembly)
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: teller
1

n someone who tells a story

Synonyms:
narrator, storyteller
Examples:
Aesop
Greek author of fables (circa 620-560 BC)
Karl Friedrich Hieronymus von Munchhausen
German raconteur who told preposterous stories about his adventures as a soldier and hunter; his name is now associated with any telling of exaggerated stories or winning lies (1720-1797)
Types:
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
Type 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)
2

n an employee of a bank who receives and pays out money

Synonyms:
bank clerk, cashier
Type of:
banker
a financier who owns or is an executive in a bank
3

n an official appointed to count the votes (especially in legislative assembly)

Synonyms:
vote counter
Types:
canvasser
a person who takes or counts votes
Type of:
functionary, official
a worker who holds or is invested with an office
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