Usually means: Countryside life idealized in literature.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word pastoral:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. pastoral: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pastoral: Merriam-Webster
  3. pastoral: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pastoral: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pastoral: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pastoral: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pastoral, pastoral: Wordnik
  8. pastoral: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. pastoral: Wiktionary
  10. pastoral: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pastoral: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pastoral: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. pastoral: Dictionary.com
  14. pastoral (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. pastoral: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Pastoral (Alexis novel), Pastoral (Shute novel), Pastoral (disambiguation), Pastoral (theatre of Soule), Pastoral: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Pastoral: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. pastoral: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. pastoral: Rhymezone
  20. pastoral, pastoral, pastoral, pastoral(e) (-aux): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. pastoral: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. pastoral: FreeDictionary.org
  23. pastoral: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. pastoral: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pastoral: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pastoral: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pastoral: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. pastoral: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

(Note: See pastorally as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Of or pertaining to shepherds or herders of other livestock.
adjective:  Relating to rural life and scenes, in particular of poetry.
adjective:  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.
noun:  A poem describing the life and manners of shepherds; a poem in which the speakers assume the character of shepherds; an idyll; a bucolic.
noun:  (music) 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.
noun:  (religion, Christianity) A letter of a pastor to his charge; specifically, a letter addressed by a bishop to his diocese.
noun:  (religion, Christianity) A letter of the House of Bishops, to be read in each parish.

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