Definitions for Bucolics

Bucolics Bu·col·ics

Spelling: [byoo-kol-iks]
IPA: /byuˈkɒl ɪks/

Bucolics is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 171 anagrams from letters in Bucolics (bccilosu).

Definitions for Bucolics

noun

  1. Eclogues.
  2. a pastoral poem.
  3. Archaic. a farmer; shepherd; rustic.

adjective

  1. of or relating to shepherds; pastoral.
  2. of, relating to, or suggesting an idyllic rural life.

Origin of Bucolics

1525-35; Latin būcolicus Greek boukolikós rustic, equivalent to boukól(os) herdsman (bou-, stem of boûs ox + -kolos keeper + -ikos -ic

Examples for Bucolics

The publication of the Bucolics was attended by such great success that they were frequently recited, even by actors on the stage.

His compositions in Latin are—Africa, an epic poem; his Bucolics, containing twelve eclogues; and three books of epistles.

Pasiphaë's monstrous passion for a bull is certainly a subject enough fitted for Bucolics.

They also keep capons, fruit, and other things, and for all these matters there is a book which they call the Bucolics.

Vergil's first work was the Bucolics, in imitation of Theocritus.

I muttered, "it is your satires, not the Bucolics of Virgil, that suit this epoch!"

They also keep capons, fruit and other things, and for all these matters there is a book which they call the Bucolics.

I noticed more than fifty expressions which could be found in the 'Bucolics.'

Eclogue, ek′log, n. a short pastoral poem like Virgil's Bucolics.

The Eclogues, sometimes called also Bucolica or Bucolics, are ten short pastoral poems.

Word Value for Bucolics
Scrable

14

Words with friends

19

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