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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

bucolic

adj (liter) → bukolisch (liter)

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bucolic

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

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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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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.