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

See Examples For:

Chaucerian

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

Chaucerian, too, in the truest sense, is Dunbar’s power of combining this keen sense of the ridiculous with a no less keen appreciation of beauty.

From Chaucer and His Times by Grace E. Hadow