pastoral

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Of or pertaining to shepherds or herders of other livestock.

   “Like the Mesolithic age of 10,000-8000 B.C., the period 6000-4000 B.C. seems to be one of the fall of fortresses and the rise of pastoral nomadism.”

2. sıfat Relating to rural life and scenes, in particular of poetry.

   “We were living a pastoral life.”

3. sıfat Relating to the care of souls, to the pastor of a church or to any local religious leader charged with the service of individual parishioners, i.e. a priest or rabbi.

   “pastoral duties”

4. isim A poem describing the life and manners of shepherds; a poem in which the speakers assume the character of shepherds; an idyll; a bucolic.

   “Ethel was silent from surprise: she had prepared herself for anger—even sorrow; but ridicule left her without an answer. What could she say to a hearer, who only smiled, and to whom emotion was only a scene in a pastoral?”

5. isim A cantata relating to rural life; a composition for instruments characterized by simplicity and sweetness; a lyrical composition the subject of which is taken from rural life.
6. isim A letter of a pastor to his charge; specifically, a letter addressed by a bishop to his diocese.
7. isim A letter of the House of Bishops, to be read in each parish.