a person appointed to count votes in a legislative body, assembly, etc
3.
a person who tells; narrator
Derived Forms
tellership, noun
Teller
/ˈtɛlə/
noun
1.
Edward. 1908–2003, US nuclear physicist, born in Hungary: a major contributor to the development of the hydrogen bomb (1952)
Word Origin and History for teller
n.
"bank clerk who pays or receives money," late 15c., "person who keeps accounts," from tell (v.) in its secondary sense of "count, enumerate," which is the primary sense of cognate words in many Germanic languages.