Chaucerian
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A poet influenced by Chaucer.
- 2 A student of the works of Chaucer.
- 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 vocabulary, if such a thing could be conceived."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From Chaucer + -ian.
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