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

I’d be out walking our dogs, Puck and Chaucer, and Stephen would just happen to be driving along the same road.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2025

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

The tweediness of our faculty, and the curriculum itself, which began, Hellenically, Byronically, with Homer, and then skipped straight to Chaucer, moving on to Shakespeare, Donne, Swift, Wordsworth, Dickens, Tennyson, and E. M. Forster.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides