What is another word for pastorals?

Pronunciation: [pˈastəɹə͡lz] (IPA)

Pastorals are often used to describe works of literature or music that focus on rural life and nature. Synonyms for pastorals include bucolic, idyllic, rustic, agrarian, and countrified. These words evoke a sense of simplicity and peacefulness that is often associated with life in the countryside. Other related words include pastoralism, agrarianism, and ruralism. These words describe the belief or lifestyle that revolves around traditional country living. While pastorals are typically associated with a romanticized view of rural life, these synonyms can be used to describe a wide range of cultural and historical movements that promote a simpler way of life.

What are the hypernyms for Pastorals?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Pastorals

Conventional diction, pastorals, and twaddle about Nature belonged to the nonsensical side.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen
62, 63 Browne, William, his pastorals, v.
"History of the English People, Index"
John Richard Green
The bishops protested, speaking in letters and pastorals 'of the persecutions of the poor Church, robbed of its goods, outraged in its ministers, and attacked in its immunities,' but the awakened country rejoiced in the only prosperous days it had known in modern times before the disestablishment.
"The Shadow of the Cathedral"
Vicente Blasco Ibañez

Famous quotes with Pastorals

  • Theocritus [is] another bright instance of the happy abilities and various accomplishments of the ancients. He has written in several sorts of poetry, and succeeded in them all. It seems unnecessary to praise the native simplicity and easy freedom of his pastorals, when Virgil himself sometimes invokes the muse of Syracuse; when he imitates him through all his own poems of that kind, and in several passages translates him... In several of his other poems he shows such strength of reason and politeness, that would qualify him to plead among the orators, and make him acceptable in the courts of princes.
    Theocritus

Related words: pastoral landscape, pastoral life, pastorals for piano

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