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Words Described by "Pastoral"

  1. care
  2. letter
  3. work
  4. life
  5. charge
  6. office
  7. duties
  8. poetry
  9. people
  10. ministry

What Google Knows

The pastoral genre of literature, art, or music depicts an idealised form of the shepherd's lifestyle – herding livestock around open areas of land according to the seasons and the changing availability of water and pasture.

Related Definition

  1. pastoral:

    adj Of or pertaining to shepherds or herders of other livestock.

    adj Relating to rural life and scenes, in particular of poetry.

    adj 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.

    n A poem describing the life and manners of shepherds; a poem in which the speakers assume the character of shepherds; an idyll; a bucolic.

    n (music) 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.

    n (religion, Christianity) A letter of a pastor to his charge; specifically, a letter addressed by a bishop to his diocese.

    n (religion, Christianity) A letter of the House of Bishops, to be read in each parish.


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