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Definition of Bucolic
1. Adjective. (used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic. "Rustic tranquility"
2. Noun. A country person.
Specialized synonyms: Cottar, Cotter, Moujik, Mujik, Muzhik, Muzjik
Generic synonyms: Rustic
Derivative terms: Peasanthood
3. Adjective. Relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle. "A pastoral economy"
4. Noun. A short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life.
Definition of Bucolic
1. a. Of or pertaining to the life and occupation of a shepherd; pastoral; rustic.
2. n. A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life, manners, and occupation of shepherds; as, the Bucolics of Theocritus and Virgil.
Definition of Bucolic
1. Adjective. Rustic, pastoral, country-styled. ¹
2. Adjective. Pertaining to herdsmen or peasants. ¹
3. Noun. A pastoral poem. ¹
4. Noun. A rustic, peasant ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bucolic
1. a pastoral poem [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bucolic
Literary usage of Bucolic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hermathena by Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland) (1883)
"THE bucolic CAESURA. WHAT is the bucolic caesura ? The oldest account of it is
that the fourth foot ends with the end of a word, so that the verse closes ..."
2. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1874)
"In this age of progress bucolic gentlemen are not to be easily taken in ; they
have learned to temper their innocence with a little cockney cunning, and so, ..."
3. Library of Choice Literature and Encyclopaedia of Universal Authorship by Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon (1893)
"(Begin, ye Nine, your sweet bucolic strains.) Him savage panthers In wild woods
deplor'd. For him fierce wolves and fiercer lions roared, Bulls, steers, ..."
4. Homerica, Emendations and Elucidations of the Odyssey by Thomas Leyden Agar (1908)
"... is really more than we could possibly bear with equanimity even for the sake
of the excellent bucolic diaeresis. ..."
5. The Mercersburg Review by Reformed Church in the United States Publication Board, Franklin and Marshall College Alumni Association (1859)
"Begin, ye muses bland, begin the plain bucolic verses. Thyrsis this is of Aetna
aud this is the voice of Thyrsis. Where were ye, 0 ye nymphs, when Daphnis ..."
6. Res Metrica: An Introduction to the Study of Greek & Roman Versification by William Ross Hardie (1920)
"Lines in Homer in which a bucolic diaeresis attracts the reader's attention are
not very frequent ; lines which have any real claim to be ' bucolic ' are ..."
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