Chaucerian

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English

Etymology

Chaucer +‎ -ian

Pronunciation

  • enPR: chô-sîrʹē-ən
  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "UK" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /tʃɔːˈsɪəɹɪ.ən/
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  • 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.

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Translations

Noun

Chaucerian (plural Chaucerians)

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