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IDYL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does idyl mean?
• IDYL (noun)
The noun IDYL has 2 senses:
1. a musical composition that evokes rural life
2. a short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life
Familiarity information: IDYL used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A musical composition that evokes rural life
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
idyl; idyll; pastoral; pastorale
Hypernyms ("idyl" is a kind of...):
composition; musical composition; opus; piece; piece of music (a musical work that has been created)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("idyl" is a kind of...):
pastoral (a literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds))
Context examples
I think, scathed as you look, and charred and scorched, there must be a little sense of life in you yet, rising out of that adhesion at the faithful, honest roots: you will never have green leaves more—never more see birds making nests and singing idyls in your boughs; the time of pleasure and love is over with you: but you are not desolate: each of you has a comrade to sympathise with him in his decay.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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