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US
/ˈpæstɝəɫ/
]
[ UK /pˈɑːstəɹəl/ ]
[ UK /pˈɑːstəɹəl/ ]
NOUN
- a literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds)
- a musical composition that evokes rural life
- a letter from a pastor to the congregation
ADJECTIVE
-
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 -
of or relating to a pastor
a pastoral letter
pastoral work
How To Use pastoral In A Sentence
- Anybody who has ever been on a North Queensland pastoral lease knows that you can go 20, 30, 40 miles day after day and all you will see is a few brumbies and some wild pigs; you will not see any cattle anywhere.
- Other areas praised by the Ofsted team include her leadership as head, and the pastoral care of pupils.
- Their pastorals, both published in 1651, offered choices to Royalists in the aftermath of the crushing defeat at Worcester.
- The demand for land focused hostile attention upon the graziers, who reared cattle and sheep commercially on extensive pastoral holdings.
- English pastoral was inaugurated by Spenser's verse eclogues in The Shepheardes Calendar and further developed in The Arcadia, a prose romance by Sidney.
- Relying on their well-established formula of eerie melodies, pastoral soundscapes, babbling children and rhythmic clamour, their sophomore effort rings true.
- Besides this diocesan system of priestly pastoral care, there are two other administrative bodies of crucial importance.
- During an earlier scene of cooperative fruit picking with Cambodian and Laotian refugees, we are offered an opportunity to meditate on a pan-Asian Thailand of agrarian-pastoral well-being, and a move away from the tense border security of the 70s when refugees from Cambodia and Laos led Thailand to turn sharply to the right. Michael Vazquez: ON THE 48TH ANNUAL NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL
- Chi crederia che sotto forme umane e sotto queste pastorali spoglie fosse nascosto un Myninjaplease
- «Il neige sur le cinéma», in which he discusses snow in the films of Georges Méliès, Jean Renoir, Charlie Chaplin, Leopold Lindtberg, René Clair, Robert Flaherty, and especially La Symphonie pastorale, Jean Delannoy's film based on Gide's novella? Languagehat.com: THE ONTOLOGY OF NARRATIVE.