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English to English adjective
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relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle |  | Example: pastoral seminomadic people
pastoral land
a pastoral economy
source: wordnet30
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Of or pertaining to the life and occupation of a shepherd; pastoral; rustic. | | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
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(used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic | | Example: a country life of arcadian contentment
a pleasant bucolic scene
charming in its pastoral setting
rustic tranquility
source: wordnet30 noun
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a country person | | source: wordnet30
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a short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life | | source: wordnet30
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A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life, manners, and occupation of shepherds; as, the Bucolics of Theocritus and Virgil. | | source: webster1913
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