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UK
/ˈaɪdɪl/
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[ US /ˈaɪdəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈaɪdəɫ/ ]
NOUN
- a musical composition that evokes rural life
- a short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life
- an episode of such pastoral or romantic charm as to qualify as the subject of a poetic idyll
How To Use idyll In A Sentence
- And its world was a narrow swamp, a grey, nubiferous environment, where it lived its contented, active, idyllic, almost mindless existence. The Voyage of the Space Beagle
- Altogether, the village is idyllic. Daniel Deronda
- However much we can all appreciate the arguments in favour of renting, most of us still hanker after the long-term idyll of bricks, mortar and a white picket fence. Are we better off renting?
- On the surface, Annie Powerss life in a wealthy Floridian suburb is happy and idyllic. Black Out by Lisa Unger: Book summary
- Caring for livestock or tending the land seems an idyllic lifestyle.
- The Green Farmhouse is the stereotypical country idyll. Times, Sunday Times
- Even the most amateur of photographers can snap perfect shots in this idyllic place.
- I had spent an idyllic summer on Mayne Island which takes its name from a lieutenant on a Royal Navy survey ship that charted these waters a century and a half ago.
- Close by the stir of the great city, with all its fret and chafe and storm of life, in the desolate garden of that sombre house, and under the withering eyes of relentless Crime, revived the Arcady of old, -- the scene vocal to the reeds of idyllist and shepherd; and in the midst of the iron Tragedy, harmlessly and unconsciously arose the strain of the Pastoral Music. Lucretia — Complete
- He was the humorous and satirical idyllist _par excellence_, and laid the scenes of his romances in idyllic surroundings, using the trifling events of daily life to wonderful purpose. The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times