bucolic

bu·col·ic

(byo͞o-kŏl′ĭk)

adj.

1. Of or characteristic of the countryside or its people; rustic. See Synonyms at rural.

2. Of or characteristic of shepherds or flocks; pastoral.

1. A pastoral poem.

2. A farmer or shepherd; a rustic.

[Latin būcolicus, pastoral, from Greek boukolikos, from boukolos, cowherd : bous, cow; see g^wou- in Indo-European roots + -kolos, herdsman; see k^wel- in Indo-European roots.]

bu·col′i·cal·ly adv.

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bucolic

(bjuːˈkɒlɪk)

adj

1. of or characteristic of the countryside or country life; rustic

2. of or relating to shepherds; pastoral

3. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) (sometimes plural) a pastoral poem, often in the form of a dialogue

4. a rustic; farmer or shepherd

[C16: from Latin būcolicus, from Greek boukolikos, from boukolos cowherd, from bous ox]

buˈcolically adv

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bu•col•ic

(byuˈkɒl ɪk)

adj.

1. of or pertaining to shepherds; pastoral.

2. of, pertaining to, or suggesting an idyllic rural life.

3. a pastoral poem.

[1525–35; < Latin būcolicus < Greek boukolikós rustic, derivative of boukól(os) herdsman]

bu•col′i•cal•ly, adv.

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Noun	1.	bucolic - a country person peasant, provincial cottar, cotter - a peasant farmer in the Scottish Highlands moujik, mujik, muzhik, muzjik - a Russian peasant (especially prior to 1917) rustic - an unsophisticated country person
	2.	bucolic - a short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life eclogue, idyl, idyll pastoral - a literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds)
Adj.	1.	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"
	2.	bucolic - relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle; "pastoral seminomadic people"; "pastoral land"; "a pastoral economy" pastoral

bucolic

adjective rustic, country, rural, agricultural, pastoral, agrarian, agrestic the bucolic surroundings of Chantilly

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bucolic

adjective

Of or relating to the countryside:

arcadian, campestral, country, pastoral, provincial, rural, rustic.

Informal: hick.

Translations

bucólico

églogue

pastorale

bucolicumbucolicus

bucólico

буколика буколический пасторальный сельский

bucolic

[bjuːˈkɒlɪk]

A. ADJ → bucólico

B. N the Bucolics → las Bucólicas

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bucolic

[bjuːˈkɒlɪk] adj (= rustic) [setting, scene] → pastoral; [poetry, poet, literature] → bucolique

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bucolic

adj (liter) → bukolisch (liter)

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bucolic

[bjuːˈkɒlɪk] adj (liter) → bucolico/a, pastorale

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I tire of the labour of thinking, and, when the table is finished, start practical jokes and set all playing at games, which we carry on with bucolic boisterousness.

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He had entertained no notion, when doomed as he had thought to an unintellectual bucolic life, that such charms as he beheld in this idyllic creature would be found behind the scenes.

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Well, play he would; he'd show 'em; even despite the elated prophesies made of how swiftly he would be trimmed--prophesies coupled with descriptions of the bucolic game he would play and of his wild and woolly appearance.

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The aristocracy here are what they call bucolic. It is their own fault.

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"But, I say," remarked the police sergeant, whose slow, bucolic common sense was still pondering the open window.

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For in those days the keenest of bucolic minds felt a whispering awe at the sight of the gentry, such as of old men felt when they stood on tiptoe to watch the gods passing by in tall human shape.

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It was with a rush of indignation that Mary found herself bucolic and awkward.

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Young gentlemen of all ages from nine to fifteen were to be found there, who expended such part of their energies as was devoted to Latin and Greek upon a book of Livy, the "Bucolics" of Virgil, and the "Hecuba" of Euripides, which were ground out in small daily portions.

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Most consumers will have a bucolic image of tossing their used packaging on to the compost heap with the potato peelings - but the reality is most compostable packaging needs a controlled industrial process.

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In this scenario, Pakistan can become the manufacturing house of handicrafts for China as Pakistan is enriched with a labor captive skilled human resource in the form of bucolic women, he said and added that that there was an intense similarity of interest between Pakistan and China in respect to production and exports of giftware and handicrafts, which could lead to a viable partnership between the two countries.

PCJCCI keen for joint ventures with China in handicrafts

As he goes through the motions of his daily life in bucolic landscape, he is forced to weigh his love for Marianne against the survival of his marriage, family and deeply held religious beliefs.

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Catacutan said the project would reverse the image of this bucolic town as the last point in the tragic death march where a concentration camp for prisoners of war was established in April 1942.