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nouna musical composition that evokes rural life
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"charming in its pastoral setting"adjective(used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic
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"pastoral seminomadic people" "pastoral land" "a pastoral economy"adjectiverelating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle
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nouna letter from a pastor to the congregation
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nouna literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds)type of:
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"pastoral work" "a pastoral letter"of or relating to a pastor
Definition that contains pastoral
- titus a New Testament book containing Saint Paul's epistle to Titus; contains advice on pastoral matters
- toda a member of a pastoral people living in the Nilgiri Hills of southern India
- kurd a member of a largely pastoral Islamic people who live in Kurdistan; the largest ethnic group without their own state
- fulani a member of a pastoral and nomadic people of western Africa; they are traditionally cattle herders of Muslim faith
- bucolic a short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life
- idyll a short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life
- idyll an episode of such pastoral or romantic charm as to qualify as the subject of a poetic idyll
- thalia (Greek mythology) the Muse of comedy and pastoral poetry
- hottentot any of the Khoisan languages spoken by the pastoral people of Namibia and South Africa
- fula a member of a pastoral and nomadic people of western Africa; they are traditionally cattle herders of Muslim faith