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English Dictionary: bucolic	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for bucolic
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bucolic adj (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" Synonym(s): arcadian, bucolic, pastoral relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle; "pastoral seminomadic people"; "pastoral land"; "a pastoral economy" Synonym(s): bucolic, pastoral n a country person Synonym(s): peasant, provincial, bucolic a short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life Synonym(s): eclogue, bucolic, idyll, idyl
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bucolic \Bu*col"ic\, n. [L. Bucolic[93]n po[89]ma.] A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life, manners, and occupation of shepherds; as, the Bucolics of Theocritus and Virgil. --Dryden.