bucolic
pronunciation
How to pronounce bucolic in British English:
UK [bju:ˈkɒlɪk]
How to pronounce bucolic in American English:
US [bjuˈkɑlɪk]
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- Noun:
- a country person
- a short descriptive poem of rural or pastoral life
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- Adjective:
- used of idealized country life
- relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle
Word Origin
- bucolic (adj.)
- 1610s, earlier bucolical (1520s), from Latin bucolicus, from Greek boukolikos "pastoral, rustic," from boukolos "cowherd, herdsman," from bous "cow" (see cow (n.)) + -kolos "tending," related to Latin colere "to till (the ground), cultivate, dwell, inhabit" (the root of colony). Middle Irish búachaill, Welsh bugail "shepherd" are Celtic words form from the same root material as Greek boukolos.
Example
- 1. Thorntown 's bucolic bliss was thanks to a corporate sponsor , campbell soup .
- 2. Just east of downtown irvine , in southern california , a bucolic landscape is under construction .
- 3. Even farther north are the bucolic wisconsin dells , a region along the wisconsin river blessed with a number of state parks , hiking trails and campsites .
- 4. I slept surprisingly well and woke to a view from my compartment that varied between immense tracts of farmland , villages of wooden houses , birch forests and sudden blots of ugly industrialised towns ; bucolic past met dystopian future .
- 5. But a short boat ride away from the electric glow of the financial center exposes a cluster of refreshingly bucolic islands and mellow stretches of sandy coast -- which together form part of an area known as the new territories .