Chaucerian

English

Etymology

Chaucer +‎ -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.

Translations

of or pertaining to Geoffrey Chaucer or his writings

• Portuguese: chauceriano
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Noun

Chaucerian (plural Chaucerians)

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