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CANTERBURY TALES
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Canterbury Tales mean?
• CANTERBURY TALES (noun)
The noun CANTERBURY TALES has 1 sense:
1. an uncompleted series of tales written after 1387 by Geoffrey Chaucer
Familiarity information: CANTERBURY TALES used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An uncompleted series of tales written after 1387 by Geoffrey Chaucer
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Instance hypernyms:
narration; narrative; story; tale (a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program)
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