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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
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}]
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