pastoral

Adjective

• (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
    

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

• of or relating to a pastor
  • pastoral work
    
  • a pastoral letter
    

Noun

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

• a letter from a pastor to the congregation

• a musical composition that evokes rural life

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  arcadian , bucolic , pastorale , idyll , idyl