BUCOLIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bucolic mean? 

• BUCOLIC (noun)
  The noun BUCOLIC has 2 senses:

1. a country person

2. a short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life

  Familiarity information: BUCOLIC used as a noun is rare.

• BUCOLIC (adjective)
  The adjective BUCOLIC has 2 senses:

1. (used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic

2. relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle

  Familiarity information: BUCOLIC used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUCOLIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A country person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

bucolic; peasant; provincial

Hypernyms ("bucolic" is a kind of...):

rustic (an unsophisticated country person)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bucolic"):

cottar; cotter (a peasant farmer in the Scottish Highlands)

moujik; mujik; muzhik; muzjik (a Russian peasant (especially prior to 1917))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

bucolic; eclogue; idyl; idyll

Hypernyms ("bucolic" is a kind of...):

pastoral (a literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds))

• BUCOLIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic

Synonyms:

arcadian; bucolic; pastoral

Context example:

rustic tranquility

Similar:

rural (living in or characteristic of farming or country life)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

bucolic; pastoral

Context example:

a pastoral economy

Pertainym:

shepherd (a herder of sheep (on an open range); someone who keeps the sheep together in a flock)