different between pastoral vs idyllist

English

Etymology

From Middle French, Old French pastoral, from Latin pastoralis, from p?stor (“shepherd”), + adjective suffix -alis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pæs.t?.??l/
• enPR: p?s"t?r-al, IPA^(key): /?pæs?t????l/
• Rhymes: -????l

Adjective

pastoral (comparative more pastoral, superlative most pastoral)

1. Of or pertaining to shepherds or herders of other livestock
2. Relating to rural life and scenes

   We were living a pastoral life.

   • He wanders west as far as Memphis, a solitary migrant upon that flat and pastoral landscape. - 1985 McCarthy, Blood Meridian, chapter
   • [...] these pastoral farms,/Green to the very door; and wreaths of smoke / Sent up, in silence, from among the trees! - 1798 Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey, lines 16-18.
3. Relating to the care of souls, to the pastor of a church or to any local religious leader charged with the service of individual parishioners, i.e. a priest or rabbi.

   pastoral duties; a pastoral letter

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

pastoral (plural pastorals)

1. A poem describing the life and manners of shepherds; a poem in which the speakers assume the character of shepherds; an idyll; a bucolic.
2. (music) 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.
3. (religion, Christianity) A letter of a pastor to his charge; specifically, a letter addressed by a bishop to his diocese.
4. (religion, Christianity) A letter of the House of Bishops, to be read in each parish.

Translations

Anagrams

• Laportas, al pastor, postalar, proatlas

Catalan

Adjective

pastoral (masculine and feminine plural pastorals)

1. pastoral

French

Etymology

From Middle French, Old French pastoral, from Latin pastoralis, from p?stor (“shepherd”), + adjective suffix -alis.

Adjective

pastoral (feminine singular pastorale, masculine plural pastoraux, feminine plural pastorales)

1. pastoral

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pasto??a?l/
• Rhymes: -a?l

Adjective

pastoral (not comparable)

1. pastoral

Declension

Portuguese

Adjective

pastoral m or f (plural pastorais, comparable)

1. Alternative form of pastoril
2. pastoral (relating to the pastor of a church)

Noun

pastoral f (plural pastorais)

1. (Roman Catholicism) a letter written by a bishop or the pope explaining a doctrine

Romanian

Etymology

From French pastoral, from Latin pastorale.

Adjective

pastoral m or n (feminine singular pastoral?, masculine plural pastorali, feminine and neuter plural pastorale)

1. pastoral

Declension

Spanish

Adjective

pastoral (plural pastorales)

1. pastoral

Noun

pastoral f (plural pastorales)

1. pastoral

English

Etymology

idyll +? -ist

Noun

idyllist (plural idyllists)

1. A writer of idylls; an idyllic poet or writer; one who depicts idyllic or pastoral subjects.

References

• idyllist in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.