'Bucolic' definitions:
Definition of 'bucolic'
(from WordNet)
adjective
(used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic; "a country life of arcadian contentment"; "a pleasant bucolic scene"; "charming in its pastoral setting"; "rustic tranquility" [syn: arcadian, bucolic, pastoral]
adjective
Relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle; "pastoral seminomadic people"; "pastoral land"; "a pastoral economy" [syn: bucolic, pastoral]
noun
A country person [syn: peasant, provincial, bucolic]
noun
Definition of 'Bucolic'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Definition of 'Bucolic'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'bucolic'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- agrarian,
- agrestic,
- agricultural,
- alba,
- Alcaic,
- anacreontic,
- Anacreontic,
- arcadian,
- Arcadian,
- balada,
- ballad,
- ballade,
- bardic,
- boor,
- bumpkin,
- campestral,
- canso,
- Castalian,
- chanson,
- clerihew,
- clod,
- clodhopper,
- clown,
- countrified,
- country,
- country bumpkin,
- didactic,
- dirge,
- dithyramb,
- dithyrambic,
- dramatic,
- eclogic,
- eclogue,
- elegiac,
- elegy,
- English sonnet,
- epic,
- epigram,
- epithalamium,
- epode,
- epopee,
- epopoeia,
- epos,
- farm,
- farmer,
- genuine,
- georgic,
- ghazel,
- haiku,
- hayseed,
- heroic,
- hick,
- hillbilly,
- Homeric,
- homespun,
- Horatian ode,
- Hudibrastic,
- idyll,
- idyllic,
- inartificial,
- Italian sonnet,
- 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,
- Petrarchan sonnet,
- Pierian,
- Pindaric,
- Pindaric ode,
- poem,
- poetic,
- poetico-mystical,
- poetico-mythological,
- poetico-philosophic,
- poetlike,
- prothalamium,
- provincial,
- rhapsodic,
- rhyme,
- rondeau,
- rondel,
- roundel,
- roundelay,
- rube,
- runic,
- rural,
- rustic,
- sapphic,
- Sapphic ode,
- satire,
- sestina,
- Shakespearean sonnet,
- skaldic,
- sloka,
- song,
- sonnet,
- sonnet sequence,
- tanka,
- tenso,
- tenzone,
- Theocritean,
- 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