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pastoral Definition
(a)
of
or
relating
to
a
pastor
; "
pastoral
work
"; "
a
pastoral
letter
"
(a)
relating
to
shepherds
or
herdsmen
or
devoted
to
raising
sheep
or
cattle
; "
pastoral
seminomadic
people
"; "
pastoral
land
"; "
a
pastoral
economy
"
(n)
a
musical
composition
that
evokes
rural
life
(n)
a
letter
from
a
pastor
to
the
congregation
(n)
a
literary
work
idealizing
the
rural
life
(
especially
the
life
of
shepherds
)
(s)
used
of
idealized
country
life
; "
a
country
life
of
arcadian
contentment
"; "
a
pleasant
bucolic
scene
"; "
charming
in
its
pastoral
setting
"; "
rustic
tranquility
"
(s)
suggestive
of
an
idyll
;
charmingly
simple
and
serene
; "
his
idyllic
life
in
Tahiti
"; "
the
pastoral
legends
of
America
''
s
Golden
Age
"
pastoral Synonyms
arcadian
bucolic
idyll
idyllic
pastoral
pastorale
rustic
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