BANKER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does banker mean? 

• BANKER (noun)
  The noun BANKER has 2 senses:

1. a financier who owns or is an executive in a bank

2. the person in charge of the bank in a gambling game

  Familiarity information: BANKER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BANKER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A financier who owns or is an executive in a bank

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("banker" is a kind of...):

financier; moneyman (a person skilled in large scale financial transactions)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "banker"):

bank clerk; cashier; teller (an employee of a bank who receives and pays out money)

Instance hyponyms:

Rothschild (any of family of powerful Jewish bankers in Europe)

Derivation:

bank (be in the banking business)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The person in charge of the bank in a gambling game

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("banker" is a kind of...):

money dealer; money handler (a person who receives or invests or pays out money)

 Context examples 

“You mean the West Country bankers,” said he.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“A day which has saved England from a great public scandal,” said the banker, rising.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

‘Oh,’ said she, in her playful way, ‘you said that you were only my banker, and bankers never ask questions, you know.’

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Her ugly sister, Manon, married M. Duvillard, the rich banker, last autumn.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

You are doing well at work, and your lender will be impressed with your professional progress, which is why your banker will be willing to work with you.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

This morning I wrote to my banker in London to send me certain jewels he has in his keeping,—heirlooms for the ladies of Thornfield.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I'm going to the bankers first for letters, and then to Castle Hill.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

She was left with limited means, but with some very remarkable old Spanish jewellery of silver and curiously cut diamonds to which she was fondly attached—too attached, for she refused to leave them with her banker and always carried them about with her.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Her father, instead of giving her an unlimited order on his banker, or even putting an hundred pounds bank-bill into her hands, gave her only ten guineas, and promised her more when she wanted it.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Which was very gratifying to him until he tried to collect. Something had gone wrong in the County Committee, and, though a rich banker and a state senator were members of it, the money was not forthcoming.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)