Bucolic: alternatives and connections

Of or pertaining to the country, as distinguished from a city or town; living in the country; suitable for, or resembling, the country; rustic; as, r…

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Of or pertaining to the country, as distinguished from a city or town; living in the country; suitable for, or resembling, the country; rustic; as, r…

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A cottager; a cottier.

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Alt. of Cottar

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Of or pertaining to shepherds; hence, relating to rural life and scenes; as, a pastoral life.

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Of or pertaining to the country; rural; as, the rustic gods of antiquity.

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A man employed in tending, feeding, and guarding sheep, esp. a flock grazing at large.

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Alt. of Arcadic

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A pastoral poem, in which shepherds are introduced conversing with each other; a bucolic; an idyl; as, the Ecloques of Virgil, from which the modern…

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A short poem; properly, a short pastoral poem; as, the idyls of Theocritus; also, any poem, especially a narrative or descriptive poem, written in an…

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Of or pertaining to shepherds; hence, relating to rural life and scenes; as, a pastoral life.

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A countryman; a rustic; especially, one of the lowest class of tillers of the soil in European countries.

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Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.

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