chapman

¹

[chap-muhn]

noun

plural

chapmen 

1. British.,  a peddler.

2. Archaic.,  a merchant.

Chapman

²

[chap-muhn]

noun

1. Frank Michler 1864–1945, U.S. ornithologist, museum curator, and author.

2. George, 1559–1634, English poet, dramatist, and translator.

3. John. Appleseed, Johnny.

Chapman

¹

/ ˈtʃæpmən /

noun

1. George 1559–1634, English dramatist and poet, noted for his translation of Homer

chapman

²

/ ˈtʃæpmən /

noun

1. archaic,  a trader, esp an itinerant pedlar

Other Word Forms

• chapmanship noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of Chapman¹

before 900; Middle English; Old English cēapman ( cēap buying and selling + man man ); cognate with Dutch koopman, German Kaufmann; cheap

Word History and Origins

Origin of Chapman¹

Old English cēapman, from cēap buying and selling (see _cheap )

Example Sentences

The company currently has 1,300 workers in the UK and was founded in the early 1950s by engineer Colin Chapman.

From BBC

The story is fictional, but the character was inspired by someone I worked with named Lee Roy Chapman at This Land Press magazine.

From Los Angeles Times

This situation is a "complicated mix of employer/employee relations and the specificity of sport" in the words of Dan Chapman, the partner and head of employment and sports teams at Leathes Prior.

From BBC

The play is pitched for maximum intensity, and Chapman’s direction encourages a mythic scope — a wholly appropriate approach for a drama that leaps over the safety of realism.

From Los Angeles Times

She moved to Los Angeles after earning a cinematography degree from Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film in Orange in 2014.

From Los Angeles Times