Idyl \I"dyl\, n. [L. idyllium, Gr. ?, fr. ? form; literally, a
little form of image: cf. F. idylle. See Idol.]
A short poem; properly, a short pastoral poem; as, the idyls
of Theocritus; also, any poem, especially a narrative or
descriptive poem, written in an eleveted and highly finished
style; also, by extension, any artless and easily flowing
description, either in poetry or prose, of simple, rustic
life, of pastoral scenes, and the like. [Written also
idyll.]
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Wordsworth's solemn-thoughted idyl. --Mrs.
Browning.
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His [Goldsmith's] lovely idyl of the Vicar's home. --F.
Harrison.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
idyll
n 1: an episode of such pastoral or romantic charm as to qualify
as the subject of a poetic idyll
2: a musical composition that evokes rural life [syn: pastorale,
pastoral]
3: a short descriptive poem of rural or pastoral life [syn: eclogue,
bucolic]
WordNet (r) 2.0
67 Moby Thesaurus words for "idyll":
English sonnet, Horatian ode, Italian sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet,
Pindaric ode, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet, alba, anacreontic,
balada, ballad, ballade, bucolic, canso, chanson, clerihew, dirge,
dithyramb, eclogue, elegy, epic, epigram, epithalamium, epode,
epopee, epopoeia, epos, georgic, ghazel, haiku, jingle, limerick,
lyric, madrigal, monody, narrative poem, nursery rhyme, ode,
palinode, pastoral, pastoral elegy, pastorela, pastourelle, poem,
prothalamium, rhyme, rondeau, rondel, roundel, roundelay, satire,
sestina, sloka, song, sonnet, sonnet sequence, tanka, tenso,
tenzone, threnody, triolet, troubadour poem, verse, verselet,
versicle, villanelle, virelay
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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