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单词 Chaucerian
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Definition of Chaucerian in English:

Chaucerian

adjective tʃɔːˈsɪərɪən
  • Relating to or characteristic of the English writer Geoffrey Chaucer or his works.

    ribald Chaucerian pilgrimages
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The editors have also included several new pieces to keep the text abreast of new developments in Chaucerian studies.
    • I've sent some 30 copies of my Chaucer piece to editors, literary men, Chaucerian scholars.
    • At school he was introduced to Anglo-Saxon and Chaucerian English, and also began to read the Norse Sagas.
    • The novel sets out to over-write the bawdy, lusty Chaucerian England of popular mythology with a landscape that is sinister, threatening, and politically unstable.
    • Of his more readable poems, most were written in the first decade of the 15th cent. in a Chaucerian vein.
    • The mock-heroic story is full of rhetoric and exempla, and it is regarded as the most typically Chaucerian in tone and content.
noun tʃɔːˈsɪərɪən
  • An admirer, imitator, or student of the works of the English writer Geoffrey Chaucer.

    every English department wants a Chaucerian
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Some early Chaucerians sought to match each Canterbury pilgrim with an historically identifiable person.
    • They overlapped with the Cambridge years of another noted Chaucerian, Edmund Spenser.
    • The boys of the group embraced the assignment a little too enthusiastically, shouting the carols like tankard-hoisting Chaucerians rather than singing them.

Rhymes

Algerian, Cancerian, Cimmerian, criterion, Hesperian, Hitlerian, Hyperion, Iberian, Liberian, Nigerian, Presbyterian, Shakespearean, Siberian, Spenserian, Sumerian, valerian, Wagnerian, Zairean
 
 

Definition of Chaucerian in US English:

Chaucerian

adjectivetʃɔˈsɪriənCHôˈsirēən
  • Relating to or characteristic of the English poet Geoffrey Chaucer or his works.

    ribald Chaucerian pilgrimages
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The editors have also included several new pieces to keep the text abreast of new developments in Chaucerian studies.
    • The novel sets out to over-write the bawdy, lusty Chaucerian England of popular mythology with a landscape that is sinister, threatening, and politically unstable.
    • At school he was introduced to Anglo-Saxon and Chaucerian English, and also began to read the Norse Sagas.
    • The mock-heroic story is full of rhetoric and exempla, and it is regarded as the most typically Chaucerian in tone and content.
    • I've sent some 30 copies of my Chaucer piece to editors, literary men, Chaucerian scholars.
    • Of his more readable poems, most were written in the first decade of the 15th cent. in a Chaucerian vein.
nountʃɔˈsɪriənCHôˈsirēən
  • An admirer, imitator, or student of the works of the English poet Geoffrey Chaucer.

    every English department wants a Chaucerian
    Example sentencesExamples
    • They overlapped with the Cambridge years of another noted Chaucerian, Edmund Spenser.
    • Some early Chaucerians sought to match each Canterbury pilgrim with an historically identifiable person.
    • The boys of the group embraced the assignment a little too enthusiastically, shouting the carols like tankard-hoisting Chaucerians rather than singing them.
 
 
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