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Look up: bucolic

  1. Bucolic
    Alternative term for eclogue.
    Found on http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/glossary_of

  2. bucolic
    [adj] - relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. Bucolic
    Bu·col'ic adjective [ Latin bucolicus , Greek ..., from ... cowherd, herdsman; ... ox + (perh.) ... race horse; confer Sanskrit kal to drive: confer French bucolique . See Cow the animal.] Of or pertaining to the life and occupation of a shepherd; pastoral; rustic.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/B/108

  4. Bucolic
    Bu·col'ic noun [ Latin Bucolicôn poëma.] A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life, manners, and occupation of shepherds; as, the Bucolics of Theocritus and Virgil. Dryden.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/B/108

  5. bucolic
    adjective relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle; `pastoral seminomadic people`; `pastoral land`; `a pastoral economy`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  6. Bucolic
    • (n.) A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life, manners, and occupation of shepherds; as, the Bucolics of Theocritus and Virgil. • (a.) Of or pertaining to the life and occupation of a shepherd; pastoral; rustic.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  7. bucolic
    bucolic 1. Relating to or characteristic of the countryside or country life; such as, a writer of bucolic poems. 2. A reference to shepherds: relating to or characteristic of shepherds, herdsmen, or flocks. 3. A reference to, or suggesting an idyllic rural life. 4. Etymology: from Latin bucolicus...
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

  8. bucolic
    Sir Thomas Elyot's Latin-English dictionary (1538) explains 'Bucolicum carmen, a poeme made of herdmen.' Cf. eclogue, idyll, and pastoral.
    Found on http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display_r

  9. bucolic
    • a country person
    • a short descriptive poem of rural or pastoral life

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