CHAUCER

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• CHAUCER (noun)
  The noun CHAUCER has 1 sense:

1. English poet remembered as author of the Canterbury Tales (1340-1400)

  Familiarity information: CHAUCER used as a noun is very rare.

• CHAUCER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

English poet remembered as author of the Canterbury Tales (1340-1400)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Chaucer; Geoffrey Chaucer

Instance hypernyms:

poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))

 Context examples 

I remember well that, at the siege of Retters, there was a little, sleek, fat clerk of the name of Chaucer, who was so apt at rondel, sirvente, or tonson, that no man dare give back a foot from the walls, lest he find it all set down in his rhymes and sung by every underling and varlet in the camp.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Within the shadow, I may figuratively say, of that religious edifice immortalized by Chaucer, which was anciently the resort of Pilgrims from the remotest corners of—in short, said Mr. Micawber, in the immediate neighbourhood of the Cathedral.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)