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Pastoral Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Pastoral? [n] a literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds) [n] a letter from a pastor to the congregation [n] a musical composition that evokes rural life [adj] suggestive of an idyll; charmingly simple and serene; "his idyllic life in Tahiti"; "the pastoral legends of America's Golden Age" [adj] used of idealized country life; "a country life of arcadian contentment"; "a pleasant bucolic scene"; "charming in its pastoral setting"; "rustic tranquility" [adj] of or relating to a pastor; "pastoral work"; "a pastoral letter" [adj] relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle; "pastoral seminomadic people"; "pastoral land"; "a pastoral economy" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Pastoral: arcadian \| bucolic \| bucolic \| idyllic \| pastorale \| pleasant \| rural \| rustic Related Terms \| Find terms related to Pastoral: abbatial \| abbatical \| agrarian \| agrestic \| agricultural \| airscape \| alba \| Alcaic \| Anacreontic \| antimasque \| Arcadian \| archiepiscopal \| at peace \| audience success \| balada \| ballad \| ballade \| ballet \| bardic \| bloodless \| bomb \| broadcast drama \| bucolic \| burlesque show \| calm \| campestral \| canonical \| canso \| capitular \| capitulary \| Castalian \| chanson \| charade \| churchly \| cityscape \| clerical \| clerihew \| cliff hanger \| closet drama \| cloudscape \| comedy drama \| concordant \| countrified \| country \| critical success \| daytime serial \| dialogue \| didactic \| diorama \| dirge \| dithyramb \| dithyrambic \| documentary drama \| drama \| dramalogue \| dramatic \| dramatic play \| dramatic series \| duodrama \| duologue \| ecclesiastic \| ecclesiastical \| eclogic \| eclogue \| Edenic \| elegiac \| elegy \| English sonnet \| epic \| epic theater \| epigram \| episcopal \| episcopalian \| epithalamium \| epode \| epopee \| epopoeia \| epos \| evangelistic \| experimental theater \| exterior \| extravaganza \| failure \| farm \| farming \| farmscape \| flop \| gasser \| genuine \| georgic \| ghazel \| giveaway \| Grand Guignol \| haiku \| halcyon \| happening \| harmonious \| heroic \| hit \| hit show \| Homeric \| homespun \| Horatian ode \| Hudibrastic \| humble \| idyll \| idyllic \| improvisational drama \| inartificial \| innocent \| interior \| Italian sonnet \| jingle \| landscape \| legitimate drama \| limerick \| lowland \| lyric \| madrigal \| masque \| melodrama \| ministerial \| minstrel show \| miracle \| miracle play \| mock-heroic \| monodrama \| monody \| monologue \| morality \| morality play \| music drama \| musical revue \| mystery \| mystery play \| narrative \| narrative poem \| native \| natural \| naturelike \| nursery rhyme \| ode \| opera \| orderly \| outland \| pacific \| pageant \| palinode \| panel show \| pantomime \| Passion play \| pastoral drama \| pastoral elegy \| pastorela \| pastourelle \| peaceable \| peaceful \| peacetime \| Petrarchan sonnet \| piece \| Pierian \| Pindaric \| Pindaric ode \| piping \| placid \| play \| playlet \| poem \| poetic \| poetico-mystical \| poetico-mythological \| poetico-philosophic \| poetlike \| prelatial \| prelatic \| priestish \| priestly \| priest-ridden \| problem play \| prothalamium \| provincial \| psychodrama \| quiet \| quiz show \| rabbinic \| radio drama \| restful \| review \| revue \| rhapsodic \| rhyme \| riverscape \| rondeau \| rondel \| roundel \| roundelay \| runic \| rural \| rustic \| sacerdotal \| sapphic \| Sapphic ode \| satire \| scape \| scene \| seapiece \| seascape \| sensational play \| serene \| serial \| sestina \| Shakespearean sonnet \| show \| simple \| sitcom \| situation comedy \| skaldic \| sketch \| skit \| skyscape \| sloka \| snowscape \| soap \| soap opera \| sociodrama \| soft \| song \| sonnet \| sonnet sequence \| spectacle \| stage play \| stage show \| straight drama \| success \| suspense drama \| tableau \| tableau vivant \| talk show \| tanka \| teleplay \| television drama \| television play \| tenso \| tenzone \| theater of cruelty \| Theocritean \| threnody \| Tom show \| total theater \| townscape \| tranquil \| triolet \| troubadour poem \| ultramontane \| unadorned \| unaffected \| unartificial \| unassuming \| uncomplicated \| undesigning \| undisguising \| undissembling \| undissimulating \| unembellished \| unfeigning \| unpretending \| unpretentious \| unspoiled \| untroubled \| unvarnished \| upland \| variety show \| vaudeville \| vaudeville show \| vehicle \| verse \| verselet \| versicle \| view \| villanelle \| virelay \| waterscape \| word-of-mouth success \| work See Also \| bucolic \| composition \| eclogue \| idyll \| letter \| literary composition \| literary work \| missive \| musical composition \| opus \| piece \| piece of music Pastoral In Webster's Dictionary \Pas"toral\, a. [L. pastoralis: cf. F. pastoral. See {Pastor}.] 1. Of or pertaining to shepherds; hence, relating to rural life and scenes; as, a pastoral life. 2. Relating to the care of souls, or to the pastor of a church; as, pastoral duties; a pastoral letter. {Pastoral staff} (Eccl.), a staff, usually of the form of a shepherd's crook, borne as an official emblem by a bishop, abbot, abbess, or other prelate privileged to carry it. See {Crook}, and {Crosier}. {Pastoral Theology}, that part of theology which treats of the duties of pastors. \Pas"toral\, n. 1. A poem describing the life and manners of shepherds; a poem in which the speakers assume the character of shepherds; an idyl; a bucolic. A pastoral is a poem in which any action or passion is represented by its effects on a country life. --Rambler. 2. (Mus.) A cantata relating to rural life; a composition for instruments characterized by simplicity and sweetness; a lyrical composition the subject of which is taken from rural life. --Moore (Encyc. of Music). 3. (Eccl.) A letter of a pastor to his charge; specifically, a letter addressed by a bishop to his diocese; also (Prot. Epis. Ch.), a letter of the House of Bishops, to be read in each parish.

Pastoral Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Pastoral?

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

Pastoral In Webster's Dictionary

\Pas"tor*al\, a. [L. pastoralis: cf. F. pastoral. See
{Pastor}.]
1. Of or pertaining to shepherds; hence, relating to rural
   life and scenes; as, a pastoral life.

2. Relating to the care of souls, or to the pastor of a
   church; as, pastoral duties; a pastoral letter.

{Pastoral staff} (Eccl.), a staff, usually of the form of a
   shepherd's crook, borne as an official emblem by a bishop,
   abbot, abbess, or other prelate privileged to carry it.
   See {Crook}, and {Crosier}.

{Pastoral Theology}, that part of theology which treats of
   the duties of pastors.


\Pas"tor*al\, n.
1. A poem describing the life and manners of shepherds; a
   poem in which the speakers assume the character of
   shepherds; an idyl; a bucolic.

         A pastoral is a poem in which any action or passion
         is represented by its effects on a country life.
                                               --Rambler.

2. (Mus.) A cantata relating to rural life; a composition for
   instruments characterized by simplicity and sweetness; a
   lyrical composition the subject of which is taken from
   rural life. --Moore (Encyc. of Music).

3. (Eccl.) A letter of a pastor to his charge; specifically,
   a letter addressed by a bishop to his diocese; also (Prot.
   Epis. Ch.), a letter of the House of Bishops, to be read
   in each parish.

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