Idyll

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idyll
n. poem or prose composition describing a charmingly rustic scene; pastoral scene, charmingly rustic episode


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Idyll
An idyll or idyl (pronounced [] or []) (from Greek eidyllion, little picture) is a short poem, descriptive of rustic life, written in the style of Theocritus's short pastoral poems, the Idylls. Later imitators included the Roman poets Virgil and Catullus, Italian poet Leopardi, and the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
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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


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Idyll (das)
n. idyll; pastoral scene; charmingly rustic episode

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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
  

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