eclogue, bucolic, idyll, idyl
(noun) a short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life
pastorale, pastoral, idyll, idyl
(noun) a musical composition that evokes rural life
idyll
(noun) an episode of such pastoral or romantic charm as to qualify as the subject of a poetic idyll
Source: WordNet® 3.1
idyll (plural idylls)
Any poem or short written piece composed in the style of Theocritus' short pastoral poems, the Idylls.
An episode or series of events or circumstances of pastoral or rural simplicity, fit for an idyll; a carefree or lighthearted experience.
(music) A composition, usually instrumental, of a pastoral or sentimental character, e.g. Siegfried Idyll by Richard Wagner.
• dilly
Source: Wiktionary
23 December 2024
(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
