bucolic Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a country person
    provincial; peasant.
  2. noun a short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life
    idyll; eclogue; idyl.
  3. adjective satellite (used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic
    arcadian; pastoral.
    • a country life of arcadian contentment
    • a pleasant bucolic scene
    • charming in its pastoral setting
    • rustic tranquility
  4. adjective relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle
    pastoral.
    • pastoral seminomadic people
    • pastoral land
    • a pastoral economy

WordNet

Bu*col"ic adjective
Etymology
L. bucolicus, Gr. , fr. cowherd, herdsman; ox + (perh.) race horse; cf. Skr. kal to drive: cf. F. bucolique. See Cow the animal.
Definitions
  1. Of or pertaining to the life and occupation of a shepherd; pastoral; rustic.
Bu*col"ic noun
Etymology
L. Bucolicôn poëma.
Definitions
  1. A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life, manners, and occupation of shepherds; as, the Bucolics of Theocritus and Virgil. Dryden.

Webster 1913