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PASTORAL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("pastoral" is a kind of...):
literary composition; literary work (imaginative or creative writing)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pastoral"):
bucolic; eclogue; idyl; idyll (a short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life)
Derivation:
pastoral ((used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A letter from a pastor to the congregation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("pastoral" is a kind of...):
letter; missive (a written message addressed to a person or organization)
Derivation:
pastoral (of or relating to a pastor)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A musical composition that evokes rural life
Synonyms:
idyl; idyll; pastoral; pastorale
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("pastoral" is a kind of...):
composition; musical composition; opus; piece; piece of music (a musical work that has been created)
Derivation:
pastoral ((used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic
Example:
rustic tranquility
Synonyms:
arcadian; bucolic; pastoral
Classified under:
Similar:
rural (living in or characteristic of farming or country life)
Derivation:
pastoral (a literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds))
pastoral (a musical composition that evokes rural life)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Of or relating to a pastor
Example:
a pastoral letter
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
pastor (a person authorized to conduct religious worship)
Derivation:
pastor (a person authorized to conduct religious worship)
pastoral (a letter from a pastor to the congregation)
Sense 3
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)
