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UK
/bjuːkˈɒlɪk/
]
[ US /bjuˈkɑɫɪk/ ]
[ US /bjuˈkɑɫɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle
pastoral seminomadic people
a pastoral economy
pastoral land -
(used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic
charming in its pastoral setting
a pleasant bucolic scene
a country life of arcadian contentment
rustic tranquility
NOUN
- a short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life
- a country person
How To Use bucolic In A Sentence
- Far from the bucolic paradise of popular myth, with lowing herds winding slowly o'er the lea, modern farms have as much romance as a widget factory.
- An earlier essay by Ms. Wu, titled ‘Cherishing a Faraway Place,’ recalled her rural upbringing and struck a bucolic tone about the simple, honest values of the peasantry.
- The scenes are bucolic pastorals of peasant and aristocratic life during the period.
- The painting shows a typically bucolic scene with peasants harvesting crops in a field.
- Flavia thinks that her days of crime-solving in the bucolic English hamlet of Bishops Lacy are overand then Rupert Porson has an unfortunate rendezvous with electricity. The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley: Book summary
- In the US, however, the European pastoral ideal, rooted in Virgil's bucolic visions of an unchanging Arcadia of shepherds and shepherdesses, has been transmuted by the capitalistic impetus.
- In three days' time the bucolic town of Bunol will burst into life for its annual tomato-throwing frenzy as 30,000 fruit-wielding revellers paint the pueblo red for La Tomatina, one of Spain's most exuberant fiestas.
- You portray the bucolic aspects of small-town life, and this idealized family, then slowly reveal the dark underside of such a life.
- There is no question of destroying hedgerows or bucolic woodland. Times, Sunday Times
- She altered the composition by shifting the house to the right and filling in the left with a bucolic scene of a shepherd and shepherdess with a small flock of sheep.