Definition of bucolic Bucolic

/bjukɑˈlɪk/ - [byukalik] - bu•col•ic

We found 10 definitions of bucolic from 5 different sources.

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What does bucolic mean?

WordNet

WordNet by Princeton University

Adjective

bucolic - relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle; "pastoral seminomadic people"; "pastoral land"; "a pastoral economy"
  pastoral
bucolic - (used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic; "a country life of arcadian contentment"; "a pleasant bucolic scene"; "charming in its pastoral setting"; "rustic tranquility"
  arcadian, pastoral
  rural living in or characteristic of farming or country life; "rural people"; "large rural households"; "unpaved rural roads"; "an economy that is basically rural"
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

  • bucolic (a.)
    Of or pertaining to the life and occupation of a shepherd; pastoral; rustic.
  • bucolic (n.)
    A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life, manners, and occupation of shepherds; as, the Bucolics of Theocritus and Virgil.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

  • bucolic
    -al, bū-kol′ik, -al, adj. pertaining to the tending of cattle: pastoral: rustic, countrified.—n. Bucol′ic, a pastoral poem. [L.—Gr. boukolikosboukolos, a herdsman.]

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