Chaucerian

English

Etymology

Chaucer +‎ -ian

Pronunciation

• enPR: chô-sîrʹē-ən
• (UK) IPA^(key): /tʃɔːˈsɪəɹɪ.ən/
• (US) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɔˈsɪɹi.ən/
• Rhymes: -ɪəɹiən, -ɪɹiən
• Hyphenation: Chau‧cer‧ian

Adjective

Chaucerian (comparative more Chaucerian, superlative most Chaucerian)

1. (literature) Of or pertaining to Geoffrey Chaucer or his writings.
   • 1926, Suniti Kumar Chatterji, The Origin and Development of the Bengali Language, page 134:

     Literary Bengali of prose, during the greater part of the 19th century, was thus a doubly artificial language ; and, with its forms belonging to Middle Bengali, and its vocabulary highly Sanskritised, it could only be compared to a 'Modern English' with a Chaucerian grammar and a super-Johnsonian vocabulary, if such a thing could be conceived.

Derived terms

• Chaucerianism

Translations

of or pertaining to Geoffrey Chaucer or his writings

• French: chaucérien
• Portuguese: chauceriano

Noun

Chaucerian (plural Chaucerians)

1. (literature) A poet influenced by Chaucer.
2. A student of the works of Chaucer.