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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bucolic \Bu*col"ic\, a. [L. bucolicus, Gr. ?, fr. ? cowherd,
     herdsman; ? ox + (perh.) ? race horse; cf. Skr. kal to drive:
     cf. F. bucolique. See {Cow} the animal.]
     Of or pertaining to the life and occupation of a shepherd;
     pastoral; rustic.
     [1913 Webster]



From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bucolic \Bu*col"ic\, n. [L. Bucolic[^o]n po["e]ma.]
     A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life,
     manners, and occupation of shepherds; as, the Bucolics of
     Theocritus and Virgil. --Dryden.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  bucolic
       adj 1: used of idealized country life; "a country life of arcadian
              contentment"; "a pleasant bucolic scene"; "charming in
              its pastoral setting"; "rustic tranquility" [syn: {arcadian},
               {pastoral}, {rustic}]
       2: relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising
          sheep or cattle; "pastoral seminomadic people"; "pastoral
          land"; "a pastoral economy" [syn: {pastoral}]
       n 1: a country person [syn: {peasant}, {provincial}]
       2: a short descriptive poem of rural or pastoral life [syn: {eclogue},
           {idyll}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  143 Moby Thesaurus words for "bucolic":
     Alcaic, Anacreontic, Arcadian, Castalian, English sonnet, Homeric,
     Horatian ode, Hudibrastic, Italian sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet,
     Pierian, Pindaric, Pindaric ode, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet,
     Theocritean, agrarian, agrestic, agricultural, alba, anacreontic,
     arcadian, balada, ballad, ballade, bardic, boor, bumpkin,
     campestral, canso, chanson, clerihew, clod, clodhopper, clown,
     countrified, country, country bumpkin, didactic, dirge, dithyramb,
     dithyrambic, dramatic, eclogic, eclogue, elegiac, elegy, epic,
     epigram, epithalamium, epode, epopee, epopoeia, epos, farm, farmer,
     genuine, georgic, ghazel, haiku, hayseed, heroic, hick, hillbilly,
     homespun, idyll, idyllic, inartificial, jingle, limerick, looby,
     lout, lowland, lyric, madrigal, mock-heroic, monody, narrative,
     narrative poem, native, natural, naturelike, nursery rhyme, ode,
     outland, palinode, pastoral, pastoral elegy, pastorela,
     pastourelle, poem, poetic, poetico-mystical, poetico-mythological,
     poetico-philosophic, poetlike, prothalamium, provincial, rhapsodic,
     rhyme, rondeau, rondel, roundel, roundelay, rube, runic, rural,
     rustic, sapphic, satire, sestina, skaldic, sloka, song, sonnet,
     sonnet sequence, tanka, tenso, tenzone, threnody, triolet,
     troubadour poem, unadorned, unaffected, unartificial, unassuming,
     undesigning, undisguising, undissembling, undissimulating,
     unembellished, unfeigning, unpretending, unpretentious, unspoiled,
     unvarnished, upland, verse, verselet, versicle, villanelle,
     virelay, yokel
  
  

















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