pastoral
adjEtymology
From Middle French, Old French pastoral, from Latin pāstōrālis, from pāstor (“shepherd”), + adjective suffix -ālis.
- derived from pāstōrālis
- derived from pastoral
Definitions
Of or pertaining to shepherds or herders of other livestock.
- Like the Mesolithic age of 10,000-8000 B.C., the period 6000-4000 B.C. seems to be one of the fall of fortresses and the rise of pastoral nomadism.
Relating to rural life and scenes, in particular of poetry.
- We were living a pastoral life.
- […] these pastoral farms, / Green to the very door; and wreaths of smoke / Sent up, in silence, from among the trees!
- There was a tone, too, of pastoral poetry shed over the new scenes to which they were just introduced, that had a greater effect from the contrast to those, artificial and crowded, which they had just left.
Relating to the care of souls, to the pastor of a church or to any local religious leader…
Relating to the care of souls, to the pastor of a church or to any local religious leader charged with the service of individual parishioners, i.e. a priest or rabbi.
- pastoral duties
- a pastoral letter
- “In terms of pastoral consequences,” Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, who leads the Vatican’s office on doctrine, said in a news conference Monday, “the principle of welcoming all is clear in the words of Pope Francis.”
›+ 4 more definitionsshow fewer
A poem describing the life and manners of shepherds
A poem describing the life and manners of shepherds; a poem in which the speakers assume the character of shepherds; an idyll; a bucolic.
- Ethel was silent from surprise: she had prepared herself for anger—even sorrow; but ridicule left her without an answer. What could she say to a hearer, who only smiled, and to whom emotion was only a scene in a pastoral?
A cantata relating to rural life
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.
A letter of a pastor to his charge
A letter of a pastor to his charge; specifically, a letter addressed by a bishop to his diocese.
A letter of the House of Bishops, to be read in each parish.
The neighborhood
- neighboral pastor
Derived
agropastoral, antipastoral, cyberpastoral, neopastoral, nonpastoral, pastoral care, pastoral charge, pastoralise, pastoralism, pastoralist, pastoralize, pastoral letter, pastorally, pastoralness, pastoral staff, pastoral theology, prepastoral, semipastoral, silvipastoral, silvopastoral, unpastoral
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at pastoral. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at pastoral. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at pastoral
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA