Meaning of BUCOLIC
| Pronunciation: | | byoo'kâlik
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- [n] a short descriptive poem of rural or pastoral life
- [n] a country person
- [adj] used of idealized country life; "a country life of arcadian contentment"; "a pleasant bucolic scene"; "charming in its pastoral setting"; "rustic tranquility"
- [adj] relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle; "pastoral seminomadic people"; "pastoral land"; "a pastoral economy"
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| | Synonyms: | | arcadian, eclogue, idyll, pastoral, pastoral, peasant, provincial, rural, rustic |
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| | See Also: | | cottar, cotter, moujik, mujik, muzhik, muzjik, pastoral, rustic | |
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\Bu*col"ic\, a. [L. bucolicus, Gr. ?, fr. ? cowherd,
herdsman; ? ox + (perh.) ? race horse; cf. Skr. kal to drive:
cf. F. bucolique. See {Cow} the animal.]
Of or pertaining to the life and occupation of a shepherd;
pastoral; rustic.
\Bu*col"ic\, n. [L. Bucolic[^o]n po["e]ma.]
A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life,
manners, and occupation of shepherds; as, the Bucolics of
Theocritus and Virgil. --Dryden.
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| | Related Terms: | | agrarian, agrestic, agricultural, alba, Alcaic, Anacreontic, Arcadian, balada, ballad, ballade, bardic, boor, bumpkin, campestral, canso, Castalian, chanson, clerihew, clod, clodhopper, clown, countrified, country, country bumpkin, didactic, dirge, dithyramb, dithyrambic, dramatic, eclogic, eclogue, elegiac, elegy, English sonnet, epic, epigram, epithalamium, epode, epopee, epopoeia, epos, farm, farmer, genuine, georgic, ghazel, haiku, hayseed, heroic, hick, hillbilly, Homeric, homespun, Horatian ode, Hudibrastic, idyll, idyllic, inartificial, Italian sonnet, jingle, limerick, looby, lout, lowland, lyric, madrigal, mock-heroic, monody, narrative, narrative poem, native, natural, naturelike, nursery rhyme, ode, outland, palinode, pastoral, pastoral elegy, pastorela, pastourelle, Petrarchan sonnet, Pierian, Pindaric, Pindaric ode, poem, poetic, poetico-mystical, poetico-mythological, poetico-philosophic, poetlike, prothalamium, provincial, rhapsodic, rhyme, rondeau, rondel, roundel, roundelay, rube, runic, rural, rustic, sapphic, Sapphic ode, satire, sestina, Shakespearean sonnet, skaldic, sloka, song, sonnet, sonnet sequence, tanka, tenso, tenzone, Theocritean, threnody, triolet, troubadour poem, unadorned, unaffected, unartificial, unassuming, undesigning, undisguising, undissembling, undissimulating, unembellished, unfeigning, unpretending, unpretentious, unspoiled, unvarnished, upland, verse, verselet, versicle, villanelle, virelay, yokel |
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