Adjective pastoral has 4 senses
  1. pastoral - of or relating to a pastor; "pastoral work"; "a pastoral letter"
  2. bucolic, pastoral - relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle; "pastoral seminomadic people"; "pastoral land"; "a pastoral economy"
  3. arcadian, bucolic, pastoral, rustic - used of idealized country life; "a country life of arcadian contentment"; "a pleasant bucolic scene"; "charming in its pastoral setting"; "rustic tranquility"
    Antonym: urban (indirect, via rural)
  4. idyllic, pastoral - suggestive of an idyll; charmingly simple and serene; "his idyllic life in Tahiti"; "the pastoral legends of America's Golden Age"
    Antonym: unpleasant (indirect, via pleasant)
,Noun pastoral has 3 senses
  1. pastorale, pastoral, idyll - a musical composition that evokes rural life
    --1 is a kind of musical composition, opus, composition, piece, piece of music
  2. pastoral - a letter from a pastor to the congregation
    --2 is a kind of
    letter, missive
  3. pastoral - a literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds)
    --3 is a kind of
    literary composition, literary work
    --3 has particulars: eclogue, bucolic, idyll
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