Usually means: Peaceful, simple scene or period.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word idyll:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. idyll: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. idyll: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. idyll: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. idyll: Collins English Dictionary
  5. idyll: Vocabulary.com
  6. Idyll, idyll: Wordnik
  7. idyll: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. idyll: Wiktionary
  9. idyll: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. idyll (idyl): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. idyll: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. idyll: Dictionary.com
  13. idyll: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Idyll: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. idyll: Rhymezone
  16. idyll: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. idyll: Free Dictionary
  18. idyll: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. idyll: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)
  2. IDYLL: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. idyll: Encyclopedia

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  1. idyll: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See idylls as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Any poem or short written piece composed in the style of Theocritus's short pastoral poems, the Idylls.
noun:  An episode or series of events or circumstances of pastoral or rural simplicity, fit for an idyll; a carefree or lighthearted experience.
noun:  (music) A composition, usually instrumental, of a pastoral or sentimental character, e.g. Siegfried Idyll by Richard Wagner.

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