Bucolic

bucolic
    adj 1: (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}]
    2: relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep
       or cattle; "pastoral seminomadic people"; "pastoral land"; "a
       pastoral economy" [syn: {bucolic}, {pastoral}]
    n 1: a country person [syn: {peasant}, {provincial}, {bucolic}]
    2: a short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life [syn:
       {eclogue}, {bucolic}, {idyll}, {idyl}]
    

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.
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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.
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143 Moby Thesaurus words for "bucolic":
      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