"pastoral" in the noun sense
1. pastorale, pastoral, idyll, idyl
a musical composition that evokes rural life
2. pastoral
a letter from a pastor to the congregation
3. pastoral
a literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds)
"pastoral" in the adjective sense
1. pastoral
of or relating to a pastor
"pastoral work"
"a pastoral letter"
2. bucolic, pastoral
relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle
"pastoral seminomadic people"
"pastoral land"
"a pastoral economy"
3. arcadian, bucolic, pastoral
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"
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