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Etymology

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From Chaucer +‎ -ian.

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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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Noun

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Chaucerian (plural Chaucerians)

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