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BUCOLIC

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life

Synonyms:

bucolic; eclogue; idyl; idyll

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("bucolic" is a kind of...):

pastoral (a literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A country person

Synonyms:

bucolic; peasant; provincial

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("bucolic" is a kind of...):

rustic (an unsophisticated country person)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bucolic"):

cottar; cotter (a peasant farmer in the Scottish Highlands)

moujik; mujik; muzhik; muzjik (a Russian peasant (especially prior to 1917))

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

(used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic

Example:

rustic tranquility

Synonyms:

arcadian; bucolic; pastoral

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

rural (living in or characteristic of farming or country life)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle

Example:

a pastoral economy

Synonyms:

bucolic; pastoral

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

shepherd (a herder of sheep (on an open range); someone who keeps the sheep together in a flock)

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