1. An official appointed to count the votes (especially in legislative assembly)
   "The tellers worked through the night to tally the election results";
   - vote counter
    
2. An employee of a bank who receives and pays out money
   "The teller processed the customer's deposit quickly";
   - cashier, bank clerk
    
3. Someone who tells a story
   "The old teller kept the children spellbound with his tales";
   - narrator, storyteller

1. United States physicist (born in Hungary) who worked on the first atom bomb and the first hydrogen bomb (1908-2003)
   - Edward Teller

Derived forms: tellers

Type of: banker, functionary, nuclear physicist, official, speaker, talker, utterer, verbaliser [Brit], verbalizer

Encyclopedia: Teller, Edward