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(ɪdɪl, US aɪdəl)
Word forms: plural idyllsregional note: in AM, also use idyl
countable noun
If you describe a situation as an idyll, you mean that it is idyllic.
She finds that the sleepy town she moves to isn't the rural idyll she imagined.
Though they still talked a lot, Harry felt that their idyll was drawing to an end.
Synonyms: heaven [informal], ideal, paradise, Eden More Synonyms of idyll

idyll in British English

or sometimes US idyl (ˈɪdɪl)
noun
1. 
a poem or prose work describing an idealized rural life, pastoral scenes, etc
2. 
any simple narrative or descriptive piece in poetry or prose
3. 
a charming or picturesque scene or event
4. 
a piece of music with a calm or pastoral character
Word origin
C17: from Latin īdyllium, from Greek eidullion, from eidos shape, (literary) form

idyll in American English

(ˈaɪdəl; British ˈɪdəl) or ˈidyl (ˈaɪdəl; British ˈɪdəl)
noun
1. 
a short poem or prose work describing a simple, peaceful scene of rural or pastoral life
2. 
a scene or incident suitable for such a work
3. 
a narrative poem somewhat like a short epic
Tennyson's “Idylls of the King”
4.  Music
a simple, pastoral composition
Word origin
L idyllium < Gr eidyllion, dim. of eidos, a form, figure, image: see -oid

Examples of 'idyll' in a sentence
idyll

It is a cosy English idyll.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
There was a dark side to this rural idyll.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
For these soldiers the unexpected journey from rural idyll to battlefield desolation was anything but fantasy.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
When they reached the river their short idyll ended.
Tracy Chevalier Burning Bright (2007)
This idyll ended abruptly when he was five.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
After two weeks we had still not found anywhere that matched our idea of a country idyll.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Yes, there are pockets of poverty in the rural idyll.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
No one realised how hostile the locals in this English rural idyll would be.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
It's almost too much of a rural idyll.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The area is fringed with palms, but there the idyll ends.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
He is nostalgic for a lost and very English idyll.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Want the country idyll without giving up the City job?
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
And your own coastal bolthole or country idyll doesn't have to cost a fortune.
The Sun (2012)
An ancient farmhouse nestled into the rolling and wild folds of Dartmoor sounds like the perfect country idyll.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
And your own little piece of coastal charm or country idyll doesn't have to cost afortune.
The Sun (2011)
Yet the idyll ended sadly.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
It represents the country idyll.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
But in 1970, the idyll ended.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
The Green Farmhouse is the stereotypical country idyll.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Before that, we lived in harmony with nature, a rural idyll in which humans and wildlife dwelt in peace.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Why we love it A rural idyll in Constable country.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
(noun) 
Definition
a scene or time of peace and happiness
This town was not the rural idyll she had imagined.
Synonyms
heaven (informal)
My idea of heaven is hiking with friends on a sunny day.
ideal
paradise
They believe they will go to paradise when they die.
Eden
Utopia
perfect place
Garden of Eden
Shangri-la
Happy Valley
seventh heaven
Erewhon

Additional synonyms

in the sense of paradise
Definition
heaven
They believe they will go to paradise when they die.
Synonyms
heaven,
Promised Land,
Zion,
City of God,
Elysian fields,
garden of delights,
divine abode,
heavenly kingdom

Nearby words of
idyll

  • idolatrous
  • idolatry
  • idolize
  • idyll
  • idyllic
  • if
  • iffy

Synonyms of 'idyll'

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