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Chaucerian

Syllables: Chau·cer·ianUK/tʃɔːˈsɪəɹɪ.ən/US/t͡ʃɔˈsɪɹi.ən/

Chaucerian adjective: of or pertaining to Geoffrey Chaucer or his writings.

Adjective

Chaucerian (comparative more Chaucerian, superlative most Chaucerian)

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

Noun

Chaucerian (plural Chaucerians)

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

Forms of Chaucerian

Adjective
comparativemore Chaucerian
superlativemost Chaucerian
Noun
pluralChaucerians

Origin of Chaucerian

From Chaucer + -ian.

Words formed from Chaucerian

Words that rhyme with Chaucerian

6 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about Chaucerian

What does Chaucerian mean?
Chaucerian means of or pertaining to Geoffrey Chaucer or his writings.
What part of speech is Chaucerian?
Chaucerian can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce Chaucerian?
Chaucerian is pronounced /tʃɔːˈsɪəɹɪ.ən/ (UK).

Words near Chaucerian in the dictionary

  1. Chauca
  2. Chaucas
  3. Chaucer
  4. Chaucerese
  5. Chauceresque
  6. Chaucerian
  7. Chauceriana
  8. Chaucerianism
  9. Chaucerianisms
  10. Chaucerians
  11. Chaucerism

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