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Definition of idyll in English: idyllnoun ˈɪdɪlˈaɪdl 1An extremely happy, peaceful, or picturesque period or situation, typically an idealized or unsustainable one. the rural idyll remains strongly evocative in most industrialized societies Example sentencesExamples - Now the proposals have been approved by planning officers and the final hurdle to the creation of their perfect rural idyll has been crossed.
- So even if a group is composed exclusively of altruists, all behaving nicely towards each other, it only takes a single selfish mutant to bring an end to this happy idyll.
- On the big screen, however, Oban has always been portrayed as a pastoral idyll.
- And were any of the shops in this mono-cultural rural idyll aware that it is the Jewish festival of Purim?
- Some highlights from the research shows that those firms looking beyond Dublin to get out of the traffic jams may not fare any better by chasing the rural idyll.
- But just as it was in Buchan's day, the idyll is illusory.
- Lambs are the icons of the rural idyll, the faces that grace a thousand Lake District postcards and the sight that brightens the spirits of even the most jaded commuters as they flash past Cumbrian hills.
- Goth, however, was one style that did achieve some form of visibility - although you'll note that I say the late 1980s because, like most things, it took a few years to make its way out to our rural idyll.
- But like most rural idylls everything is not as it seems, the club suffers from more than its fair share of vandalism.
- The concrete, pebble-dashed trees under the plaque suggest that this form of community history is made up of a hankering back to a rural idyll, but one that is compromised already by the urban.
- It might be associations, such as memories of holidays, pastoral idylls, the peacefulness, the slower pace, or a whole imagined way of life.
- Public entertainment can go ahead at the Barge Inn at Honeystreet despite some strenuous opposition from neighbours wanting to preserve their rural idyll.
- The sniper was merely a rupture in the domestic idyll of Virginian life: everything around was peaceful.
- Just like Rousseau, Finlay has created an art which sets the notion of the Arcadian idyll against mankind's extreme barbarity.
- The ‘quality of life index’ suggests the happiest Scots live in the Highlands where the rural idyll of low crime, a strong sense of community and good health remains largely intact.
- He started painting rural idylls featuring churches and meadows which he intended to sell to the urban bourgeoisie.
- And then aspects of war burst upon their peaceful idyll.
- But in the weeks ahead the concept of Europe is going to be more than just a bureaucratic nightmare or a holiday idyll.
- Born in 1901, her childhood was a happy idyll enough until World War One awakened her to reality.
- New Yorker Colin Brant's two naive-style oil paintings evoke otherworldly idylls with manicured grass, trees and happy, relaxed people.
Synonyms perfect time, ideal time, wonderful time, moment of bliss, honeymoon paradise, heaven, heaven on earth, Garden of Eden, Shangri-La, fairyland, Utopia literary Arcadia, Arcady, Erewhon - 1.1 A short description in verse or prose of a picturesque scene or incident, especially in rustic life.
Example sentencesExamples - Patchett takes her time getting there, but by the climax of her story, you find yourself hoping that the idyll will - somehow, magically - last.
- If the first half of the novel is an idyll, the second half shifts to romance.
- The verdant landscapes and the warm, sunny color palette enhance the sense of the story as an idyll, a brief golden interval amid the dark uncertainty of war.
- Arcadian idylls are also a prolific feature of writing in the 18th and 19th centuries.
- Clearly the poetry is more than music, idylls and dreams; I would argue that Hyde knows full well that language makes itself part of what it refers to.
Synonyms pastoral, eclogue, georgic, rural poem
Origin Late 16th century (in the Latin form): from Latin idyllium, from Greek eidullion, diminutive of eidos 'form, picture'. Definition of idyll in US English: idyllnounˈīdlˈaɪdl 1An extremely happy, peaceful, or picturesque episode or scene, typically an idealized or unsustainable one. the rural idyll remains strongly evocative in most industrialized societies Example sentencesExamples - Born in 1901, her childhood was a happy idyll enough until World War One awakened her to reality.
- Public entertainment can go ahead at the Barge Inn at Honeystreet despite some strenuous opposition from neighbours wanting to preserve their rural idyll.
- It might be associations, such as memories of holidays, pastoral idylls, the peacefulness, the slower pace, or a whole imagined way of life.
- And were any of the shops in this mono-cultural rural idyll aware that it is the Jewish festival of Purim?
- Goth, however, was one style that did achieve some form of visibility - although you'll note that I say the late 1980s because, like most things, it took a few years to make its way out to our rural idyll.
- The concrete, pebble-dashed trees under the plaque suggest that this form of community history is made up of a hankering back to a rural idyll, but one that is compromised already by the urban.
- Some highlights from the research shows that those firms looking beyond Dublin to get out of the traffic jams may not fare any better by chasing the rural idyll.
- Now the proposals have been approved by planning officers and the final hurdle to the creation of their perfect rural idyll has been crossed.
- So even if a group is composed exclusively of altruists, all behaving nicely towards each other, it only takes a single selfish mutant to bring an end to this happy idyll.
- The sniper was merely a rupture in the domestic idyll of Virginian life: everything around was peaceful.
- Just like Rousseau, Finlay has created an art which sets the notion of the Arcadian idyll against mankind's extreme barbarity.
- And then aspects of war burst upon their peaceful idyll.
- New Yorker Colin Brant's two naive-style oil paintings evoke otherworldly idylls with manicured grass, trees and happy, relaxed people.
- Lambs are the icons of the rural idyll, the faces that grace a thousand Lake District postcards and the sight that brightens the spirits of even the most jaded commuters as they flash past Cumbrian hills.
- The ‘quality of life index’ suggests the happiest Scots live in the Highlands where the rural idyll of low crime, a strong sense of community and good health remains largely intact.
- But like most rural idylls everything is not as it seems, the club suffers from more than its fair share of vandalism.
- But in the weeks ahead the concept of Europe is going to be more than just a bureaucratic nightmare or a holiday idyll.
- He started painting rural idylls featuring churches and meadows which he intended to sell to the urban bourgeoisie.
- On the big screen, however, Oban has always been portrayed as a pastoral idyll.
- But just as it was in Buchan's day, the idyll is illusory.
Synonyms perfect time, ideal time, wonderful time, moment of bliss, honeymoon - 1.1 A short description in verse or prose of a picturesque scene or incident, especially in rustic life.
Example sentencesExamples - Patchett takes her time getting there, but by the climax of her story, you find yourself hoping that the idyll will - somehow, magically - last.
- If the first half of the novel is an idyll, the second half shifts to romance.
- The verdant landscapes and the warm, sunny color palette enhance the sense of the story as an idyll, a brief golden interval amid the dark uncertainty of war.
- Clearly the poetry is more than music, idylls and dreams; I would argue that Hyde knows full well that language makes itself part of what it refers to.
- Arcadian idylls are also a prolific feature of writing in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Synonyms pastoral, eclogue, georgic, rural poem
Origin Late 16th century (in the Latin form): from Latin idyllium, from Greek eidullion, diminutive of eidos ‘form, picture’. |