chapman

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun United States pioneer who planted apple trees as he traveled (1774-1845)
  2. noun archaic term for an itinerant peddler

Etymology

From Middle English chapman, chepman, from Old English ċēapmann (“dealer, merchant”), from Proto-West Germanic *kaupamann, equivalent to cheap (noun) + man. Cognate with synonymous West Frisian keapman, Dutch koopman, German Low German Koopmann, German Kaufmann, Swedish köpman.

In classic literature

Synonyms

John Chapman, Johnny Appleseed

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