Definitions for Eclogues

Eclogues Ec·logues

Spelling: [ek-lawgz, -logz]
IPA: /ˈɛk lɔgz, -lɒgz/

Eclogues is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 194 anagrams from letters in Eclogues (ceeglosu).

Definitions for Eclogues

noun

  1. a collection of pastoral poems (42–37 b.c.) by Vergil.
  2. a pastoral poem, often in dialogue form.

Origin of Eclogues

1400-50; late Middle English eclog Latin ecloga Greek eklogḗ selection, akin to eklégein to select; see ec-

Examples for Eclogues

Eclogues he called them, and meant to have published them by subscription.

Then, most gravely and admirably, he began to construe the Eclogues of Virgil.

So far the Eclogues have all been in Sannazzaro's terza rima.

In Spenser's Eclogues the awkwardness is greater than in Castiglione's.

Theocritus and Virgil have furnished the archetypes for our Eclogues and pastorals.

Among her works are odes, Eclogues, idyls, and a tragedy (Genseric).

His Eclogues are somewhat too long, if we compare them with the ancients.

Every naturalist concealed within him a lover of idylls or Eclogues.

Their argument was as unlike one of the debates in Vergil's Eclogues as possible.

To the Reader, prefixed to translation of Eclogues of Mantuan, 1567.

Word Value for Eclogues
Scrable

11

Words with friends

15

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