Chaucerian

American  

[chaw-seer-ee-uhn] / tʃɔˈsɪər i ən /

adjective

1. of, relating to, or characteristic of Chaucer's writings.

   Chaucerian wit.

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noun

1. a scholar devoted to the study of Chaucer and his writings.

Chaucerian British  

/ tʃɔːˈsɪərɪən /

adjective

1. of, relating to, or characteristic of the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer

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noun

1. an imitator of Chaucer, esp one of a group of 15th-century Scottish writers who took him as a model

2. 1. an admirer of Chaucer's works

   2. a specialist in the study or teaching of Chaucer

Other Word Forms

• non-Chaucerian
  adjective
• post-Chaucerian
  adjective
• pre-Chaucerian
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of Chaucerian

First recorded in 1650–60; Chaucer + -ian

Example Sentences

But he glimpsed something new in them: that these songs were our Chaucerian saga, our tarot cards, our Odyssey, our blues, our soul music.

From BBC • Dec. 2, 2023

Sometimes, I would bang this stick against the floor and shout, in a silly voice that I fancied to be Chaucerian: “Oh, Earth! Let me in!”

From The Guardian • Dec. 1, 2019

Virgil Flowers, an agent of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, is one of the few series detectives to have a Homeric epithet — no, make that a bawdy Chaucerian epithet.

From Washington Post • Nov. 1, 2018

Her story is certainly cracked open in the telling, so assured and so transcendent, it could win Chaucerian contests.

From New York Times • May 10, 2018

His wilder humour and greater heat of blood give him opportunities in which the Chaucerian tradition is not helpful, or even possible.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" by Various