Overview of noun pastoral

The noun pastoral has 3 senses

• pastorale, pastoral, idyll, idyl -- (a musical composition that evokes rural life)


• pastoral -- (a letter from a pastor to the congregation)


• pastoral -- (a literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds))

Overview of adj pastoral

The adj pastoral has 3 senses

• pastoral -- (of or relating to a pastor; "pastoral work"; "a pastoral letter")


• bucolic, pastoral -- (relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle; "pastoral seminomadic people"; "pastoral land"; "a pastoral economy")


• arcadian, bucolic, pastoral -- ((used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic; "a country life of arcadian contentment"; "a pleasant bucolic scene"; "charming in its pastoral setting"; "rustic tranquility")