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How to pronounce bucolic in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms eclogue, idyl, idyll
Type of pastoral
Type Words
Synonyms peasant, provincial
Type of rustic
Has types cotter, moujik, mujik, muzhik, muzjik, cottar
Type Words
Synonyms arcadian, pastoral


a pleasant bucolic scene.
Type Words
Synonyms pastoral

Examples of bucolic

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This bucolic patch just three counties north of the Bronx exists in a time warp.
From the newsday.com
A Chicago homicide detective gets demoted and ends up in a bucolic Florida town.
From the kentucky.com
Students enjoy this bucolic setting just steps away from Baltimore's urban pace.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Aggravations over home turf can crop up anywhere, even in bucolic Lake Wobegon.
From the washingtonpost.com
They lived on an idyllic estate called Great Elm in the bucolic town of Sharon.
From the newsweek.com
What, Barney, the bucolic domestic life with wifey doesn't do it for you anymore?
From the bostonherald.com
It curves up onto this bucolic spot, with its wide-open views of the mountains.
From the ocregister.com
Footpaths then drilled across the head of the valley through bucolic beech woods.
From the nzherald.co.nz
A fox appears from the right and suddenly, we have a bucolic tableau before us.
From the guardian.co.uk
More examples
  • Arcadian: (used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic; "a country life of arcadian contentment"; "a pleasant bucolic scene"; "charming in its pastoral setting"; "rustic tranquility"
  • Peasant: a country person
  • Relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle; "pastoral seminomadic people"; "pastoral land"; "a pastoral economy"
  • Eclogue: a short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life
  • Pastoral refers as an adjective to the lifestyle of pastoralists, such as shepherds herding livestock around open areas of land according to seasons and the changing availability of water and pasturage. ...
  • (Bucolics) The Eclogues (also called the Bucolics) are the first of the three major works of the Latin poet Virgil.
  • Sir Thomas Elyot's Latin-English dictionary (1538) explains "Bucolicum carmen, a poeme made of herdmen." Cf. eclogue, idyll, and pastoral.
  • (adj) - rustic, pastoral, natural; simple
  • In a lovely rural setting.