Look up: pastoral

1. 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...
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2. 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.
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3. 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)
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4. 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
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5. 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...
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6. 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 ...
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7. 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...
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8. pastoral
   adjective of or relating to a pastor; `pastoral work`; `a pastoral letter`
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9. 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. ...
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10. 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 ...
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11. 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 ...
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12. 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.
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13. 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.
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14. pastoral
    
    • a musical composition that evokes rural life
    • a letter from a pastor to the congregation
    • a literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds)
    
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15. 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...
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16. Pastoral
    The term pastoral refers to a people who are farm sheep, goats or cows. Simply, shepherds.
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17. 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 ideal...
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18. 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 whi...
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