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Bucolic vs Sylvan - What's the difference?

bucolic | sylvan |

As adjectives the difference between bucolic and sylvan

is that bucolic is rustic, pastoral, country-styled while sylvan is pertaining to the forest, or woodlands.

As nouns the difference between bucolic and sylvan

is that bucolic is a pastoral poem while sylvan is one who resides in the woods.

bucolic

English

(wikipedia bucolic)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Rustic, pastoral, country-styled.
  • Pertaining to herdsmen or peasants.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A pastoral poem.
  • A rustic, peasant
    • See also
    * georgic

    sylvan

    English

    Alternative forms

    * silvan

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • pertaining to the forest, or woodlands
  • * De Quincey
    • The traditional memory of a rural and a sylvan region is usually exact as well as tenacious.
  • residing in a forest or wood
  • wooded, or covered in forest

    • Synonyms

    * (of or like a forest) foresty

    See also

    * arboreal * nemorous

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who resides in the woods.
  • A fabled deity of the wood; a satyr; a faun.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Her private orchards, walled on every side, / To lawless sylvans all access denied.

    Related terms

    * Pennsylvania * Silvanus * silvicolous * silviculture * sylva * sylvatic * Transylvania