Definition of Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Exact synonyms: Chaucer
Generic synonyms: Poet

Lexicographical Neighbors of Geoffrey Chaucer

Gentle Annies
Gentleman Jim
Gentleman Johnny
Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod
Genua
Genyonemus
Genyonemus lineatus
Geo.
Geocentric Co-ordinate Time
Geocentric Coordinate Time
Geochelone
Geococcyx
Geococcyx californianus
Geoff
Geoffrey
Geoffrey Chaucer (current term)
Geoffrey of Monmouth
Geoffroea
Geoffroea decorticans
Geoffroy's cat
Geoffroy's cats
Geoffs
Geogia holly
Geoglossaceae
Geoglossum
Geometridae
Geomyidae
Geomys
Geomys bursarius
Geomys pinetis

Literary usage of Geoffrey Chaucer

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"1 HE Ufe of Jeffery, or Geoffrey Chaucer, is involved in much obscurity. The age 1 hieb succeeded him was not favourable to those researches which could ..."

2. The Fortnightly Review (1866)
"NEW FACTS IN THE LIFE OF Geoffrey Chaucer. I HAVE lately had the fortune to meet with the name of Geoffrey Chaucer in some ..."

3. Literary Landmarks of London by Laurence Hutton (1903)
"... Buckley did see a record in Letter Folio the same house where Geoffrey Chaucer was fined two shillings for beating a Franciscan Friar in Fleet Street. ..."

4. The Monthly Review (1841)
"The Poems of Geoffrey Chaucer Modernized. WORDSWORTH, Leigh Hunt, the editor Mr. 11. H. Home, and others, have laboured to popularize Chaucer by giving a ..."

5. Lives of Great English Writers from Chaucer to Browning by Walter Swain Hinchman, Francis Barton Gummere (1908)
"GREAT ENGLISH WRITERS Geoffrey Chaucer Geoffrey Chaucer is rightly called the father of English poetry. There were English poets before him, ..."

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