Idyl

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  • n. Alternative spelling of idyll.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A short poem; properly, a short pastoral poem; ; also, any poem, especially a narrative or descriptive poem, written in an eleveted and highly finished style; also, by extension, any artless and easily flowing description, either in poetry or prose, of simple, rustic life, of pastoral scenes, and the like.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Primarily, a poem descriptive of rural scenes and events; a pastoral or rural poem, like the idyls of Theocritus, Goldsmith's “Deserted Village,” or Burns's “Cottar's Saturday Night”: applied also to longer poems of a descriptive and narrative character, as Tennyson's “Idylls of the King,” and to prose compositions of similar purport treated in a poetic style.
  • n. An episode, or a series of events or circumstances of pastoral or rural simplicity, fit for an idyl.
  • n. In music, a composition, usually instrumental, of a pastoral or sentimental character.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life
  • n. a musical composition that evokes rural life
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Variant
    idyll   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    eclogue    pastoral   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    idyll    rima    elegy    eclogue    treateth    doggerel    motets    rappresentativa    ode    monody