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Look up: pastoral


  1. Pastoral
    [novel] Pastoral is a novel by the English author Nevil Shute. It was first published in 1944. Its theme is that even in the midst of war, and among warriors, everyday life, such as romance, will continue. Pastoral is a slight but charming romance set on an English airbase which revolves aro...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastoral_(novel)

  2. Pastoral
    a literary genre. Originally a poem dealing with shepherds, a pastoral is usually written by an urban poet who idealizes the shepherds' lives. The term has now been extended to include any literary work which views and idealizes the simple life from the perspective of a more complex life. [Contribut...
    Found op http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/glossary/glossaryi.html

  3. Pastoral
    A poem about idyllic rural life - often featuring the life of shepherds. Early examples of the form include the idylls of Theocritus and the eclogues of Virgil. Milton's poem Lycidas is also an example of a pastoral poem. Pastorals tended to die out with the rise of romanticism.
    Found op http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/glossary_of_poetic_terms.htm

  4. pastoral
    [adj] - of or relating to a pastor 2. [n] - a letter from a pastor to the congregation 3. [n] - a literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds)
    Found op http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definition.php?query=pastoral

  5. Pastoral
    A highly conventional mode of writing which celebrates the innocent life of shepherds and shepherdesses in poetry, plays and prose romances. Pastoral literature describes the loves and sorrows of musical shepherds
    Found op usually in an idealised Golden Age of rustic innocence and idlesness. Engli

  6. Pastoral
    Pas'tor·al adjective [ Latin pastoralis : confer French pastoral . See Pastor .] 1. Of or pertaining to shepherds; hence, relating to rural life and scenes; as, a pastoral life. 2. Relating to the care of s...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/31

  7. Pastoral
    Pas'tor·al noun 1. A poem describing the life and manners of shepherds; a poem in which the speakers assume the character of shepherds; an idyl; a bucolic. « A pastoral is a poem in which any action or passion is represented by its ...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/31

  8. pastoral
    1. Of or pertaining to shepherds; hence, relating to rural life and scenes; as, a pastoral life. ... 2. Relating to the care of souls, or to the pastor of a church; as, pastoral duties; a pastoral letter. Pastoral staff, a staff, usually of the form of a shepherd's crook, borne as an official emblem...
    Found op http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictionary?pastoral

  9. pastoral
    adjective of or relating to a pastor; `pastoral work`; `a pastoral letter`
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=pastoral

  10. Pastoral
    • (a.) Of or pertaining to shepherds; hence, relating to rural life and scenes; as, a pastoral life. • (n.) A letter of a pastor to his charge; specifically, a letter addressed by a bishop to his diocese; also (Prot. Epis. Ch.), a letter of the House of Bishops, to be read in each parish. ...
    Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/pastoral/

  11. pastoral
    (from the article `Monteverdi, Claudio`) ...short, static musical treatment, often allegorical and with scenery, of a subject from the play with which it was given, emphasizing the wishes of ...
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/p/26



  1. Pastoral
    (from the article `Bassano, Jacopo`) Landscape and genre subjects became particularly important about 1565–70, when his first paintings of rural life were produced. One of the finest is ...
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/p/26

  2. Pastoral
    [disambiguation] Pastoral can refer to: Uses of "pastoral" related to the primary meanings above include: ...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastoral_(disambiguation)

  3. Pastoral
    In music, pastoral refers to a cantata or lyrical composition relating to rural life. They are compositions for instruments characterised by simplicity and sweetness.
    Found op http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/VP.HTM

  4. Pastoral
    The adjective pastoral refers to the lifestyle of pastoralists, such as shepherds herding livestock around open areas of land according to seasons and the changing availability of water and pasturage. It also refers to a genre in literature, art or music that depicts such shepherd life in an ideali...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastoral

  5. pastoral
    following Theocritus (3rd cent. B.C.), verse about those shepherds and their beloveds who lived the simple vice-free life in Arcadia, a mountainous region in the Peloponnese of Greece. Also termed bucolic, eclogues, and idylls.
    Found op http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display_rpo/terminology.cfm#acatalectic

  6. pastoral
    1. a musical composition that evokes rural life
    2. a letter from a pastor to the congregation
    3. a literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds)

    Found op

  7. pastoral
    pastoral, literary work in which the shepherd's life is presented in a conventionalized manner. In this convention the purity and simplicity of shepherd life is contrasted with the corruption and artificiality of the court or the city. The pastoral is found in poetry, drama, and fiction, and many su...
    Found op http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/ent/A0837818.html

  8. Pastoral
    The term pastoral refers to a people who are farm sheep, goats or cows. Simply, shepherds.
    Found op http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/CXP.HTM

  9. Pastoral
    [theatre of Soule] The pastoral is a traditional kind of play from the Basque Country held in the region of Soule (Zuberoa in Basque), France. It features a set range of characters and acts repeated on all pieces. This kind of theatre represents a dualism between the wicked (dressed in red, ...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastoral_(theatre_of_Soule)

  10. Pastoral
    A composition whose style is simple and idyllic; suggestive of rural scenes.
    Found op http://www.classicalworks.com/html/glossary.html

  11. pastoral
    1) Bucolic 2) Clergyman 3) Country 4) Man of the cloth 5) Reverend 6) Rustic 7) Suggestive of an idyll
    Found op http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/EN/crossword-dictionary/pastoral/1

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