Bucolic
[bjuː'kɒlɪk] or [bjʊ'kɑlɪk]
Definition
(adj.) relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle; 'pastoral seminomadic people'; 'pastoral land'; 'a pastoral economy' .
Checker: Zachariah--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to the life and occupation of a shepherd; pastoral; rustic.
(n.) A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life, manners, and occupation of shepherds; as, the Bucolics of Theocritus and Virgil.
Typed by Laverne
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Eclogue, pastoral, idyl, pastoral poem.
a. Pastoral, rustic.
Editor: Pasquale
Definition
adj. pertaining to the tending of cattle: pastoral: rustic countrified.—n. Bucol′ic a pastoral poem.
Editor: Solomon
Examples
- We can hardly imagine bucolic placidity quickening to intellectual aims without imagining social aims as the transitional phase. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
Edited by Linda