teller

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A bank employee who takes in and pays out money to customers.

   The teller counted the cash and handed it to me.

2. 2
   noun

   A person who tells stories.

   She is a gifted teller of folk tales.

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

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