1. relating to the countryside or rural life; pastoral
2. idealized as peaceful and simple

1. a pastoral poem or other work of literature
Usage: literary

Examples

• The artist painted bucolic scenes of farmers working in golden wheat fields.
• They escaped the city for a bucolic weekend at their country cottage.
• The novel presents a bucolic vision of 19th-century farm life.
• Her bucolic childhood was spent roaming through meadows and forests.
• The poet’s bucolics celebrated the simple pleasures of rural existence.
• The bucolic landscape stretched endlessly under the clear blue sky.
• Many people romanticize bucolic life without understanding its hardships.