Thesaurus: bucolic
Of or pertaining to the life and occupation of a shepherd; pastoral; rustic.
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Definitions
- 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.
- adj. (used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic
- adj. relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle
- n. a country person
- n. a short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life
- Of or pertaining to the life and occupation of a shepherd; pastoral; rustic. A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life, manners, and occupation of shepherds; as, the Bucolics of Theocritus and Virgil. Dryden.
- Of or pertaining to the life and occupation of a shepherd;pastoral; rustic.
- j:100 a. relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle