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Type Words
Synonyms bucolic, eclogue, idyll
Type of pastoral
Type Words
Synonyms idyll, pastoral, pastorale
Type of composition, musical composition, opus, piece, piece of music

Examples of idyl

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Yet Characters and Their Landscapes, is no celebration of the romantic idyl.
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Every year thereafter the idyl is repeated, and each year he vanishes until the next.
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Director Jaecklin treats O as if it were an idyl on the order of, say, A Man and a Woman.
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The idyl ended when a jealous admirer provoked a quarrel.
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Even after the German invasion, Chonkin's idyl continues.
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Their idyl is disrupted by the pursuing villagers, but until they arrive the hermit exhibits the essence of friendship.
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His childhood was a hazy idyl of life in old Vienna, of goose-liver breakfasts on the paternal estate in Hungary.
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They fight it off, swim it off, laugh it off, in the end settle for a nice, safe, neuter idyl that is both hilarious and painful to watch.
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The idyl could not last.
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  • Pastorale: a musical composition that evokes rural life
  • Eclogue: a short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life
  • Alternative spelling of idyll
  • A short poem or prose piece depicting simple scenes of pastoral, domestic, or country life; also a more descriptive or narrative poem.