Definitions for idyll

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idyll i·dyll

Spelling: [ahyd-l]

IPA: /ˈaɪd l/

Idyll is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 34 anagrams from letters in idyll (dilly).

Definitions for idyll

noun

1. a poem or prose composition, usually describing pastoral scenes or events or any charmingly simple episode, appealing incident, or the like.
2. a simple descriptive or narrative piece in verse or prose.
3. material suitable for such a work.
4. an episode or scene of idyllic charm.
5. a brief or inconsequential romantic affair.
6. Music. a composition, usually instrumental, of a pastoral or sentimental character.

Origin of idyll

1595-1605; Latin īdyllium Greek eidýllion short pastoral poem, equivalent to eíd(os) form + -yllion diminutive suffix

Examples for idyll

It shall be a poem, an idyll—far from all interruptions, far from intrigues!'

The idyll is, according to the etymology of its name, a "little picture."

But he had the distinct feeling that there was something wrong with this idyll.

She ought to act in an idyll by Theocritus, as he was a Sicilian like herself.

They were both silent for a long time and in the silence the idyll was re-lived.

She is the idyll of our shanty, and our regard for her approaches to idolatry.

Compare this idyll, in respect to reality, with the other two you have studied.

The Rambagh seems to effortlessly have the sense of a refuge and idyll that luxury hotels the world over try so hard to conjure.

This ought to have completed the idyll, but it seemed, on the contrary, to put an end to it.

The refrain of the poem increases its resemblance to the form of a Greek idyll.