of, relating to, or characteristic of the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer
noun
2.
an imitator of Chaucer, esp one of a group of 15th-century Scottish writers who took him as a model
3.
a.
an admirer of Chaucer's works
b.
a specialist in the study or teaching of Chaucer
Chaucerian in American English
(tʃɔˈsɪəriən)
adjective
1.
of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Chaucer's writings
Chaucerian wit
noun
2.
a scholar devoted to the study of Chaucer and his writings
Word origin
[1650–60; chaucer + -ian]This word is first recorded in the period 1650–60. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: gas, oscillation, parameter, pony, romantic-ian is a suffix occurring originally in adjectives borrowed from Latin, formed from nounsdenoting places (Italian) or persons (Flavian), and now productively forming English adjectives by extension of the Latin pattern.Attached to geographical names, it denotes provenance or membership (Washingtonian), the latter sense now extended to membership in social classes, religious denominations,etc. (Episcopalian; pedestrian). Attached to personal names, it has the additional senses “contemporary with” ( Victorian) or “proponent of” (Hegelian; Freudian) the person specified by the noun base. It also occurs in a set of personal nouns,mainly loanwords from French, denoting one who engages in, practices, or works withthe referent of the base noun (comedian; grammarian; theologian)