idyll
IPA: ˈaɪdʌɫ
noun
- Any poem or short written piece composed in the style of Theocritus's short pastoral poems, the Idylls.
- An episode or series of events or circumstances of pastoral or rural simplicity, fit for an idyll; a carefree or lighthearted experience.
- (music) A composition, usually instrumental, of a pastoral or sentimental character, e.g. Siegfried Idyll by Richard Wagner.
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Examples of "idyll" in Sentences
- The village is extremely idyllic.
- The hamlet has an idyllic location.
- It seems to be the ultimate idyllic utopia.
- Is the island idyllic or bleakly agricultural
- To the ancient Greeks, Arcadia was a rural idyll.
- I don't think it is supposed to be a rural idyll.
- But the idyllic life in rural Illinois was not to last.
- Morris would certainly have been sympathetic to this rural idyll.
- It was still a rural idyll that met the visitors in 2nd World War II.
- Within 50 years, the Industrial Revolution destroyed this rural idyll.
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