Definitions for pastorals

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pastorals pas·to·ral

Spelling: [pas-ter-uh l, pah-ster-]

IPA: /ˈpæs tər əl, ˈpɑ stər-/

Pastorals is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 428 anagrams from letters in pastorals (aaloprsst).

Definitions for pastorals

noun

1. a poem, play, or the like, dealing with the life of shepherds, commonly in a conventional or artificial manner, or with simple rural life generally; a bucolic.
2. a picture or work of art representing the shepherds' life.
3. Music. pastorale.
4. a treatise on the duties of a pastor.
5. a letter to the people from their spiritual pastor.
6. a letter to the clergy or people of an ecclesiastical district from its bishop.
7. Also called pastoral staff. crosier (def 1).
8. a poem, play, or the like, dealing with the life of shepherds, commonly in a conventional or artificial manner, or with simple rural life generally; a bucolic.
9. a picture or work of art representing the shepherds' life.
10. Music. pastorale.
11. a treatise on the duties of a pastor.
12. a letter to the people from their spiritual pastor.
13. a letter to the clergy or people of an ecclesiastical district from its bishop.
14. Also called pastoral staff. crosier (def 1).

adjective

1. having the simplicity, charm, serenity, or other characteristics generally attributed to rural areas:
2. pertaining to the country or to life in the country; rural; rustic.
3. portraying or suggesting idyllically the life of shepherds or of the country, as a work of literature, art, or music:
4. of, relating to, or consisting of shepherds.
5. of or relating to a pastor or the duties of a pastor:
6. used for pasture, as land.
7. having the simplicity, charm, serenity, or other characteristics generally attributed to rural areas:
8. pertaining to the country or to life in the country; rural; rustic.
9. portraying or suggesting idyllically the life of shepherds or of the country, as a work of literature, art, or music:
10. of, relating to, or consisting of shepherds.
11. of or relating to a pastor or the duties of a pastor:
12. used for pasture, as land.

Origin of pastorals

1350-1400; Middle English Latin pāstōrālis, equivalent to pāstōr-, stem of pāstor (see pastor) + -ālis -al¹

Examples for pastorals

Persons of our rank do not marry like the Corydon and Phyllis of a pastoral.

The pastoral interest is the pioneer interest of a new colony.

How sweet and pastoral are these cool resting-places in the heart of the Vosges!

Kristin Vuković on the pastoral island struggling to attract a different kind of tourist.

For most of the year, pastoral Pag is home to roughly eight thousand residents and thirty thousand indigenous sheep.

It was a scene of quiet, pastoral beauty that now met our eyes.

And you content to live here, too, leading this simple, pastoral life!

Cryptically, he added that he would like women to have more leadership roles in administrative and pastoral activities.

It is a novel of suspense and secrets, a pastoral novel that slowly tears the pastoral apart.

The carriage drivers insist that a great majority of their horses live to enjoy a pastoral retirement.

It is a novel of suspense and secrets, a pastoral novel that slowly tears the pastoral apart.

It was a scene of quiet, pastoral beauty that now met our eyes.

The carriage drivers insist that a great majority of their horses live to enjoy a pastoral retirement.

Persons of our rank do not marry like the Corydon and Phyllis of a pastoral.

Cryptically, he added that he would like women to have more leadership roles in administrative and pastoral activities.

For most of the year, pastoral Pag is home to roughly eight thousand residents and thirty thousand indigenous sheep.

The pastoral interest is the pioneer interest of a new colony.

And you content to live here, too, leading this simple, pastoral life!

How sweet and pastoral are these cool resting-places in the heart of the Vosges!

Kristin Vuković on the pastoral island struggling to attract a different kind of tourist.