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BUCOLIC
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("bucolic" is a kind of...):
pastoral (a literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds))
Sense 2
Meaning:
A country person
Synonyms:
bucolic; peasant; provincial
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("bucolic" is a kind of...):
rustic (an unsophisticated country person)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bucolic"):
cottar; cotter (a peasant farmer in the Scottish Highlands)
moujik; mujik; muzhik; muzjik (a Russian peasant (especially prior to 1917))
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic
Example:
rustic tranquility
Synonyms:
arcadian; bucolic; pastoral
Classified under:
Similar:
rural (living in or characteristic of farming or country life)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle
Example:
a pastoral economy
Synonyms:
bucolic; pastoral
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
shepherd (a herder of sheep (on an open range); someone who keeps the sheep together in a flock)
