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idyll
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun idyll has 3 senses
- idyll(n = noun.event) Array - an episode of such pastoral or romantic charm as to qualify as the subject of a poetic idyll; Array is a kind of episode
- idyll(n = noun.communication) idyl, pastoral, pastorale - a musical composition that evokes rural life; Array is a kind of composition, musical composition, opus, piece, piece of music
- idyll(n = noun.communication) bucolic, eclogue, idyl - a short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life; Array is a kind of pastoral
Derived forms adjective idyllic1, adjective idyllic2
OXFORD DICTIONARY
idyll, n. (also idyl)
1 a short description in verse or prose of a picturesque scene or incident, esp. in rustic life.
2 an episode suitable for such treatment, usu. a love-story.
1 a short description in verse or prose of a picturesque scene or incident, esp. in rustic life.
2 an episode suitable for such treatment, usu. a love-story.
Derivative
idyllist n. idyllize v.tr. (also -ise).
Etymology
L idyllium f. Gk eidullion, dimin. of eidos form
THESAURUS
idyll
English sonnet, Horatian ode, Italian sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet, Pindaric ode, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet, alba, anacreontic, balada, ballad, ballade, bucolic, canso, chanson, clerihew, dirge, dithyramb, eclogue, elegy, epic, epigram, epithalamium, epode, epopee, epopoeia, epos, georgic, ghazel, haiku, jingle, limerick, lyric, madrigal, monody, narrative poem, nursery rhyme, ode, palinode, pastoral, pastoral elegy, pastorela, pastourelle, poem, prothalamium, rhyme, rondeau, rondel, roundel, roundelay, satire, sestina, sloka, song, sonnet, sonnet sequence, tanka, tenso, tenzone, threnody, triolet, troubadour poem, verse, verselet, versicle, villanelle, virelay
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