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bucolic

adjective/bjuːˈkɒlɪk/

C2CEFR level
75/100Rarity: rare
LiteraryRegister

Relating to the pleasant and idealised aspects of country life.

The painting offered a bucolic scene of haymaking under a wide golden sky.

Similar: pastoral, rustic, rural

Origin: From Greek boukolikos 'relating to a herdsman', from boukolos 'cowherd'.

Topic: rural idyll in General English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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