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pastoral

noun

1 pastoral

A musical composition that evokes rural life.

synonyms: idyl, idyll, pastorale.

Roget 597: poetry, poetics, poesy, Muse, Calliope, tuneful Nine, Parnassus, Helicon, Pierides, Pierian spring.    versification, rhyming, making verses; ... show more

Roget 415: music; concert; strain, tune, air; melody etc. 413; aria, arietta; piece of music [Fr.], work, number, opus; ... show more

Roget 998: rite; ceremony, ritual, liturgy, ceremonial; ordinance, observance, function, duty; form, formulary; solemnity, sacrament; incantation ... show more

Dutch: pastorale

2 pastoral

A letter from a pastor to the congregation.

Dutch: zendbrief
Polish: list pasterski

3 pastoral

A literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds).

adjective

1 pastoral

Of or relating to a pastor.

Roget 995: ecclesiastical, ecclesiological; clerical, sacerdotal, priestly, prelatical, pastoral, ministerial, capitular, theocratic; hierarchical, archiepiscopal; episcopal, ... show more

Polish: pastorski

2 pastoral

Relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle:
— Pastoral seminomadic people.
— Pastoral land.
— A pastoral economy.

synonym: bucolic.

Roget 370: pastoral, bucolic; tame, domestic.   

3 pastoral

used with regard to idealized country life Idyllically rustic:
— Charming in its pastoral setting.

synonyms: arcadian, bucolic.

Polish: arkadyjski


Moby thesaurus: Alcaic, Anacreontic, Arcadian, Castalian, Edenic, English sonnet, Grand Guignol, Homeric, Horatian ode, Hudibrastic, Italian sonnet, Passion play, Petrarchan sonnet, Pierian, Pindaric, Pindaric ode, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet, Theocritean, Tom show ... show more.

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