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.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
143 Moby Thesaurus words for "bucolic":
Alcaic, Anacreontic, Arcadian, Castalian, English sonnet, Homeric,
Horatian ode, Hudibrastic, Italian sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet,
Pierian, Pindaric, Pindaric ode, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet,
Theocritean, agrarian, agrestic, agricultural, alba, anacreontic,
arcadian, balada, ballad, ballade, bardic, boor, bumpkin,
campestral, canso, chanson, clerihew, clod, clodhopper, clown,
countrified, country, country bumpkin, didactic, dirge, dithyramb,
dithyrambic, dramatic, eclogic, eclogue, elegiac, elegy, epic,
epigram, epithalamium, epode, epopee, epopoeia, epos, farm, farmer,
genuine, georgic, ghazel, haiku, hayseed, heroic, hick, hillbilly,
homespun, idyll, idyllic, inartificial, jingle, limerick, looby,
lout, lowland, lyric, madrigal, mock-heroic, monody, narrative,
narrative poem, native, natural, naturelike, nursery rhyme, ode,
outland, palinode, pastoral, pastoral elegy, pastorela,
pastourelle, poem, poetic, poetico-mystical, poetico-mythological,
poetico-philosophic, poetlike, prothalamium, provincial, rhapsodic,
rhyme, rondeau, rondel, roundel, roundelay, rube, runic, rural,
rustic, sapphic, satire, sestina, skaldic, sloka, song, sonnet,
sonnet sequence, tanka, tenso, tenzone, threnody, triolet,
troubadour poem, unadorned, unaffected, unartificial, unassuming,
undesigning, undisguising, undissembling, undissimulating,
unembellished, unfeigning, unpretending, unpretentious, unspoiled,
unvarnished, upland, verse, verselet, versicle, villanelle,
virelay, yokel
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
arcadian, eclogue, idyll, pastoral, peasant, provincial, rustic
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