Found 2 items, similar to Pastoral.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: pastoral pastoral adj 1: of or relating to a pastor; “pastoral work”; “a pastoral letter” 2: relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle; “pastoral seminomadic people”; “pastoral land”; “a pastoral economy” [syn: bucolic] 3: used of idealized country life; “a country life of arcadian contentment”; “a pleasant bucolic scene”; “charming in its pastoral setting”; “rustic tranquility” [syn: arcadian, bucolic, rustic] 4: suggestive of an idyll; charmingly simple and serene; “his idyllic life in Tahiti”; “the pastoral legends of America's Golden Age” [syn: idyllic] pastoral n 1: a musical composition that evokes rural life [syn: pastorale, idyll] 2: a letter from a pastor to the congregation 3: a literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds)
English → English (gcide) Definition: Pastoral Pastoral \Pas"tor*al\, n. 1. A poem describing the life and manners of shepherds; a poem in which the speakers assume the character of shepherds; an idyl; a bucolic. [1913 Webster] A pastoral is a poem in which any action or passion is represented by its effects on a country life. --Rambler. [1913 Webster] 2. (Mus.) A cantata relating to rural life; a composition for instruments characterized by simplicity and sweetness; a lyrical composition the subject of which is taken from rural life. --Moore (Encyc. of Music). [1913 Webster] 3. (Eccl.) A letter of a pastor to his charge; specifically, a letter addressed by a bishop to his diocese; also (Prot. Epis. Ch.), a letter of the House of Bishops, to be read in each parish. [1913 Webster] Pastoral \Pas"tor*al\, a. [L. pastoralis: cf. F. pastoral. See Pastor.] 1. Of or pertaining to shepherds; hence, relating to rural life and scenes; as, a pastoral life. [1913 Webster] 2. Relating to the care of souls, or to the pastor of a church; as, pastoral duties; a pastoral letter. [1913 Webster] Pastoral staff (Eccl.), a staff, usually of the form of a shepherd's crook, borne as an official emblem by a bishop, abbot, abbess, or other prelate privileged to carry it. See Crook, and Crosier. Pastoral Theology, that part of theology which treats of the duties of pastors. [1913 Webster]