idyll
pronunciation
How to pronounce idyll in British English:
UK [ˈɪdɪl]
How to pronounce idyll in American English:
US [ˈaɪdl]
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- Noun:
- an episode of such pastoral or romantic charm as to qualify as the subject of a poetic idyll
- a musical composition that evokes rural life
- a short descriptive poem of rural or pastoral life
Word Origin
- idyll (n.)
- also idyl, c. 1600, "picturesque pastoral poem," from Latin idyllium, from Greek eidyllion "short, descriptive poem, usually of rustic or pastoral type," literally "a little picture," diminutive of eidos "form" (see -oid).
Example
- 1. But what followed has not been a democratic idyll .
- 2. The himalayan kingdom of bhutan is not in fact an idyll in a fairy tale .
- 3. Not far from this idyll , the french were lampooning " madame deficit " in grotesque pamphlets .
- 4. But time , unforgivingly , moves on . The idyll shows faultlines : infidelity , disease , age , loss , divorce .
- 5. Our idyll ended , of course , and we drove back to the world of loan payments , jobs and clogged washing machines .