bucolic

bucolic
Synonyms and related words:
Alcaic, Anacreontic, Arcadian, Castalian, English sonnet, Homeric, Horatian ode, Hudibrastic, Italian sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet, Pierian, Pindaric, Pindaric ode, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet, Theocritean, agrarian, agrestic, agricultural, alba, anacreontic, arcadian, balada, ballad, ballade, bardic, boor, bumpkin, campestral, canso, chanson, clerihew, clod, clodhopper, clown, countrified, country, country bumpkin, didactic, dirge, dithyramb, dithyrambic, dramatic, eclogic, eclogue, elegiac, elegy, epic, epigram, epithalamium, epode, epopee, epopoeia, epos, farm, farmer, genuine, georgic, ghazel, haiku, hayseed, heroic, hick, hillbilly, homespun, idyll, idyllic, inartificial, 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, poem, poetic, poetico-mystical, poetico-mythological, poetico-philosophic, poetlike, prothalamium, provincial, rhapsodic, rhyme, rondeau, rondel, roundel, roundelay, rube, runic, rural, rustic, sapphic, satire, sestina, skaldic, sloka, song, sonnet, sonnet sequence, tanka, tenso, tenzone, 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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  • bucolic — BUCÓLIC, Ă, bucolici, ce, adj., s.f. 1. adj. De păstor, păstoresc, pastoral; p. ext. de la ţară, câmpenesc, rustic, idilic. 2. s.f. Mic poem pastoral; eglogă, idilă. – Din fr. bucolique, lat. bucolica. Trimis de valeriu, 13.09.2007. Sursa: DEX 98 …   Dicționar Român

  • Bucolic — 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. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Bucolic — 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. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • bucolic — index provincial Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • bucolic — 1610s, earlier bucolical (1520s), from L. bucolicus, from Gk. boukolikos pastoral, rustic, from boukolos cowherd, herdsman, from bous cow + kolos tending, related to L. colere to till (the ground), cultivate, dwell, inhabit (the root of COLONY… …   Etymology dictionary

  • bucolic — pastoral, *rural, rustic Analogous words: boorish, loutish, clownish, churlish (see under BOOR): *natural, simple, naive, ingenuous Antonyms: urbane …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • bucolic — [adj] rural or rustic agrarian, agricultural, Arcadian, countrified, country, pastoral; concepts 536,583 …   New thesaurus

  • bucolic — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ relating to rural or pastoral life. ORIGIN Greek boukolikos, from boukolos herdsman …   English terms dictionary

  • bucolic — [byo͞o käl′ik] adj. [L bucolicus < Gr boukolikos < boukolos, herdsman < bous, ox (see COW1) + kolos < ? IE base * kel , to drive > HOLD1, L celer] 1. of shepherds; pastoral 2. of country life or farms; rustic n …   English World dictionary

  • bucolic — [[t]bjuːkɒ̱lɪk[/t]] ADJ: usu ADJ n Bucolic means relating to the countryside. [LITERARY] ...the bucolic surroundings of Chantilly. Syn: rural …   English dictionary

  • bucolic — /bjuˈkɒlɪk / (say byooh kolik) adjective Also, bucolical. 1. of or relating to shepherds; pastoral. 2. rustic; rural; agricultural: bucolic isolation. –noun 3. a farmer; a shepherd; a rustic. 4. a pastoral poem: * Country Towns is a small and… …  

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