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• chapman
  chapman

  noun

  a peddler.
• Chapman
  Chapman

  noun

  Frank Michler 1864–1945, U.S. ornithologist, museum curator, and author.

chapman

¹ American  

[chap-muhn] / ˈtʃæp mən /

noun

chapmen plural

1. British. a peddler.

2. Archaic. a merchant.

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Chapman ² American  

[chap-muhn] / ˈtʃæp mən /

noun

1. Frank Michler 1864–1945, U.S. ornithologist, museum curator, and author.

2. George, 1559–1634, English poet, dramatist, and translator.

3. John. Appleseed, Johnny.

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Chapman ¹ British  

/ ˈtʃæpmən /

noun

1. George 1559–1634, English dramatist and poet, noted for his translation of Homer

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chapman ² British  

/ ˈtʃæpmən /

noun

1. archaic a trader, esp an itinerant pedlar

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• chapmanship
  noun

Inflected Forms

noun

• chapmen
  plural

Etymology

Origin of chapman

before 900; Middle English; Old English cēapman ( cēap buying and selling + man man ); cognate with Dutch koopman, German Kaufmann; see cheap

Example Sentences

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From Salon • Sep. 6, 2013

These villages are connected with the outside world only by the postcart and chapman.

From Sir Joshua Reynolds A Collection of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the Painter with Introduction and Interpretation by Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May)

They would find in me a liberal chapman.

From Shirley by Brontë, Charlotte

While following his avocation as a chapman, Reuben had accumulated somewhat more than two hundred pounds, which, with the five hundred that his wife brought him, raised his capital to more than seven hundred.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 12 by Various

And when the woman had drawn him safely to the top, she told him that the cord was one that he had once given to a chapman who had been robbed.

From Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series by Sidgwick, Frank