Definitions for: Bucolic

[n] a short descriptive poem of rural or pastoral life
[n] a country person
[adj] used of idealized country life; "a country life of arcadian contentment"; "a pleasant bucolic scene"; "charming in its pastoral setting"; "rustic tranquility"
[adj] relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle; "pastoral seminomadic people"; "pastoral land"; "a pastoral economy"

Webster (1913) Definition: Bu*col"ic, a. [L. bucolicus, Gr. ?, fr. ? cowherd,
herdsman; ? ox + (perh.) ? race horse; cf. Skr. kal to drive:
cf. F. bucolique. See Cow the animal.]
Of or pertaining to the life and occupation of a shepherd;
pastoral; rustic.

Bu*col"ic, n. [L. Bucolic[^o]n po["e]ma.]
A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life,
manners, and occupation of shepherds; as, the Bucolics of
Theocritus and Virgil. --Dryden.

Synonyms: arcadian, eclogue, idyll, pastoral, pastoral, peasant, provincial, rural, rustic

See Also: cottar, cotter, moujik, mujik, muzhik, muzjik, pastoral, rustic

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