Chaucer

American  

[chaw-ser] / ˈtʃɔ sər /

noun

1. Geoffrey, 1340?–1400, English poet.

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Chaucer British  

/ ˈtʃɔːsə /

noun

1. Geoffrey. ?1340–1400, English poet, noted for his narrative skill, humour, and insight, particularly in his most famous work, The Canterbury Tales. He was influenced by the continental tradition of rhyming verse. His other works include Troilus and Criseyde, The Legende of Good Women, and The Parlement of Foules

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Example Sentences

Given its literary sources, which include Sun Tzu, James Joyce and Geoffrey Chaucer, “Together Through Life” would seem to be waving its hand at the back begging to be noticed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

Organisers said the trials can be traced to the 12th Century and were mentioned by Chaucer in The Wife of Bath's Tale in the 14th Century.

From BBC • Jul. 13, 2024

Turner’s most audacious claim is that Chaucer created what we now think of as real people with interior minds in fiction.

From Washington Post • Feb. 15, 2023

It is all the best and the worst of British humor, from Chaucer to Coward — with excursions that suggest Shakespeare, Chaplin, Hogarth, “Oliver Twist,” “The Threepenny Opera,” “Jules et Jim” and what-have-you.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2023

This idea caught on, even though great literature from Chaucer to Shakespeare to Milton is bristling with sentences ending in prepositions.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner