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idyll
[ ahyd-l ]
noun
- a delightful, tranquil rural scene or episode, reminiscent of or suitable for pastoral art or literature:
A great many horror movies are set in a suburban idyll.
- a short descriptive or narrative poem or prose work, depicting a pleasant, tranquil, idealized pastoral scene or event, or any charmingly simple episode in literature.
- A long narrative poem on a major theme, but less elevated and formal in subject matter, language, and tone than an epic:
Tennyson's Idylls of the King is an elegaic retelling of Arthurian legend.
- a brief or inconsequential romantic affair.
- Music. a composition, usually instrumental, of a pastoral or sentimental character.
idyll
/ ˈɪdɪl /
noun
- a poem or prose work describing an idealized rural life, pastoral scenes, etc
- any simple narrative or descriptive piece in poetry or prose
- a charming or picturesque scene or event
- a piece of music with a calm or pastoral character
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Example Sentences
Landing back in Cannes after this island idyll is always a bit of a shock, festival time or not.
But the intervening years were as close to a domestic idyll as Washington ever experienced.
See Now Then by Jamaica Kincaid As years go by, a domestic idyll turns dark.
What starts as a domestic idyll turns out to be something much darker.
Yet Odessa's "cosmopolitan idyll" (to use King's phrase) was not what it seemed.
The old story of Boaz and Ruth grew beneath his hands into a delicious idyll of country life.
It shall be a poem, an idyll—far from all interruptions, far from intrigues!'
It seemed that she and I had been born brother and sister in some impossible pastoral idyll.
And what is one to say of the love idyll appended to the historical drama, in spite of history, in spite of the drama itself?
Possibly it might create a greater sensation if it were introduced to the world as Julia and Pausanias: an Idyll.
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