1. a peaceful, happy period or situation, especially in the countryside
2. a short poem or piece of writing that describes a peaceful, rural scene
Usage: literary

Examples

• Their summer vacation in the mountains was a perfect idyll.
• The small village represented an idyll of simple country living.
• She longed to escape the city and find her own rural idyll.
• The poet wrote beautiful idylls about shepherds and meadows.
• Their honeymoon cottage by the lake was like something from an idyll.
• The painting captured the idyll of children playing in a sunny field.