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

Derived Forms

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

Smith wanted to maintain as many Chaucerian elements as possible in her adaptation, she said, and the contours of the story remain the same, while the play’s dialogue is written in verse couplets.

From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2021

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

Occasionally, and gloriously, the point of view shifts to a robin, whose lingo is vaguely Chaucerian.

From Slate • Sep. 10, 2015

The “Talbot” inn, which stood on the site of the ancient “Tabard,” of Chaucerian renown, disappeared from the Borough High Street in 1870.

From The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South by Harper, Charles G. (Charles George)