'idyll' definitions:
Definition of 'idyll'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'idyll'
From: GCIDE
- Idyl \I"dyl\, n. [L. idyllium, Gr. ?, fr. ? form; literally, a little form of image: cf. F. idylle. See Idol.] 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 eleveted and highly finished style; also, by extension, any artless and easily flowing description, either in poetry or prose, of simple, rustic life, of pastoral scenes, and the like. [Written also idyll.] [1913 Webster]
- Wordsworth's solemn-thoughted idyl. --Mrs. Browning. [1913 Webster]
- His [Goldsmith's] lovely idyl of the Vicar's home. --F. Harrison. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'idyll'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- alba,
- anacreontic,
- balada,
- ballad,
- ballade,
- bucolic,
- canso,
- chanson,
- clerihew,
- dirge,
- dithyramb,
- eclogue,
- elegy,
- English sonnet,
- epic,
- epigram,
- epithalamium,
- epode,
- epopee,
- epopoeia,
- epos,
- georgic,
- ghazel,
- haiku,
- Horatian ode,
- Italian sonnet,
- jingle,
- limerick,
- lyric,
- madrigal,
- monody,
- narrative poem,
- nursery rhyme,
- ode,
- palinode,
- pastoral,
- pastoral elegy,
- pastorela,
- pastourelle,
- Petrarchan sonnet,
- Pindaric ode,
- poem,
- prothalamium,
- rhyme,
- rondeau,
- rondel,
- roundel,
- roundelay,
- Sapphic ode,
- satire,
- sestina,
- Shakespearean sonnet,
- sloka,
- song,
- sonnet,
- sonnet sequence,
- tanka,
- tenso,
- tenzone,
- threnody,
- triolet,
- troubadour poem,
- verse,
- verselet,
- versicle,
- villanelle,
- virelay