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Definition of Chaucer
1. Noun. English poet remembered as author of the Canterbury Tales (1340-1400).
Definition of Chaucer
1. Proper noun. (surname rare medieval English from=Old French dot=), possibly of French origin; no longer current. ¹
2. Proper noun. Geoffrey Chaucer, a 14th century English author, best remembered for ''The Canterbury Tales''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chaucer
Literary usage of Chaucer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1887)
"Chaucer «Í- . sf Ch that Chaucer died in 1400, and on the tradition that he died
an old man. But there can be no doubt that in the middle ages and after a ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"John Chaucer, a vintner and citizen of London, married Agnes, ... John Chaucer
was connected with the Court, and once saw Flanders in the royal train. ..."
3. The Indebtedness of Chaucer's Works to the Italian Works of Boccaccio: (a by Hubertis Maurice Cummings (1916)
"Such a discovery leads us to inquire whether Chaucer knew any other of Boccaccio's
Italian works besides the Filostrato and the ..."
4. English Literature by Stopford Augustus Brooke, Charles Frederick Johnson (1900)
"The last poems of Chaucer and Langland bring our story up to 1400. ... The influence
of Chaucer lasted, and of the poems attributed to him, but now rejected ..."
5. A Literary Middle English Reader by Albert Stanburrough Cook (1915)
"Chaucer, SIR THOPAS Sir Thopas is well characterized by Ker (English ...
Chaucer has made a good thing out of the rhyme doggerel, and expresses the pleasant ..."
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