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bucolic

Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

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.

Source : WordNet®

bucolic
     adj 1: used of idealized country life; "a country life of arcadian
            contentment"; "a pleasant bucolic scene"; "charming in
            its pastoral setting"; "rustic tranquility" [syn: {arcadian},
             {pastoral}, {rustic}]
     2: relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising
        sheep or cattle; "pastoral seminomadic people"; "pastoral
        land"; "a pastoral economy" [syn: {pastoral}]
     n 1: a country person [syn: {peasant}, {provincial}]
     2: a short descriptive poem of rural or pastoral life [syn: {eclogue},
         {idyll}]
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