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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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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

Even now I had no liking for a seat on an office stool with a pen behind my ear, or going to and fro as a chapman.

From The MS. in a Red Box by Hamilton, John Arthur

He was dressed in countryman's apparel, and seemed most like a chapman, with a small pack of goods upon his back for sale in the farm-towns and cottars' houses.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

Ful many a draught of wyn had he drawe From Burdeux-ward, whil that the chapman sleep.

From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 by Whymper, Frederick

The chapman, taken at unawares, had no lie handy, so he said: "This is my war-taken thrall, and she hath been with me some three hours."

From The Sundering Flood by Morris, May