idyll
n.
poem or prose composition describing a charmingly rustic scene; pastoral scene, charmingly rustic episode
Idyll
idyll
Noun
1. an episode of such pastoral or romantic charm as to qualify as the subject of a poetic idyll
(hypernym) episode
2. a musical composition that evokes rural life
(synonym) pastorale, pastoral
(hypernym) musical composition, opus, composition, piece, piece of music
3. a short descriptive poem of rural or pastoral life
(synonym) eclogue, bucolic
(hypernym) pastoral
Idyll (das)
n.
idyll; pastoral scene; charmingly rustic episode
idyll
Synonyms and related words:
English sonnet, Horatian ode, Italian sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet, Pindaric ode, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet, alba, anacreontic, balada, ballad, ballade, bucolic, canso, chanson, clerihew, dirge, dithyramb, eclogue, elegy, epic, epigram, epithalamium, epode, epopee, epopoeia, epos, georgic, ghazel, haiku, jingle, limerick, lyric, madrigal, monody, narrative poem, nursery rhyme, ode, palinode, pastoral, pastoral elegy, pastorela, pastourelle, poem, prothalamium, rhyme, rondeau, rondel, roundel, roundelay, satire, sestina, sloka, song, sonnet, sonnet sequence, tanka, tenso, tenzone, threnody, triolet, troubadour poem, verse, verselet, versicle, villanelle, virelay
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.