bucolic

/bju:'kɔlik/

Thân thiện

A shepherd tends his flock in a bucolic meadow.

Definition

1. Adjective:

   • Relating to rural life, especially the idealized aspects of countryside living: Describes something connected to or characteristic of the countryside, often in a peaceful, simple, and charming way.
   • Relating to shepherds or pastoral life: Pertaining to the work or life of shepherds or herdsmen.

2. Noun:

   • A short poem about rural or pastoral life: A literary work that describes country life, often featuring shepherds.
   • A country dweller; a rustic person: A person who lives in the countryside.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • We escaped to a bucolic village for the weekend. (This describes the village as charmingly rural.)
  • The painting captured a bucolic scene of sheep grazing on a hillside. (This describes an idealized countryside view.)
• Noun:
  • The poet wrote a bucolic about the changing seasons. (This refers to a pastoral poem.)
  • The old bucolic knew every path through the woods. (This refers to a person from the country.)

Advanced Usage

• In literary or artistic criticism: Used to describe works that idealize rural life, often contrasting it with urban complexity.
  • The film's bucolic setting serves as a metaphor for lost innocence.
• In a slightly ironic or nostalgic tone: Can imply an idealized view that may not reflect the hardships of actual rural life.
  • His bucolic fantasies about farming didn't account for the dawn chores.

Variants and Related Words

• Bucolically (adverb): In a manner relating to the countryside.
  • The novel describes the landscape bucolically.
• Bucolism (noun, rare): The use of pastoral themes in literature or art.

Synonyms

• Adjective: Pastoral, rustic, rural, sylvan, countrified, agrarian.
• Noun (for poem): Pastoral, eclogue, idyll. (Noun for person): Rustic, peasant, countryman.

Antonyms

• Adjective: Urban, metropolitan, city, cosmopolitan.

Related Phrases and Idioms

• Bucolic charm: The appealing, picturesque quality of the countryside.
  • The cottage was praised for its bucolic charm.
• Bucolic simplicity: The uncomplicated way of life associated with the country.
  • He longed for the bucolic simplicity of his childhood.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle
   • pastoral seminomadic people
   • pastoral land
   • a pastoral economy
2. (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

Noun

1. a short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life
2. a country person

Từ đồng nghĩa

• pastoral
• arcadian
• eclogue
• idyll
• idyl
• peasant
• provincial