Pastoral vs Picturesque - What's the difference?
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Of or pertaining to shepherds; hence, relating to rural life and scenes; as, a pastoral life.
:* He wanders west as far as Memphis, a solitary migrant upon that flat and pastoral landscape. - 1985 , chapter
:* [...] these pastoral farms,/Green to the very door; and wreaths of smoke / Sent up, in silence, from among the trees! - 1798 , lines 16-18.
Relating to the care of souls, or to the pastor of a church.
A poem describing the life and manners of shepherds; a poem in which the speakers assume the character of shepherds; an idyll; a bucolic.
(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. Moore
(religion, Christianity) A letter of a pastor to his charge; specifically, a letter addressed by a bishop to his diocese.
(religion, Christianity) A letter of the , to be read in each parish.
Resembling or worthy of a picture or painting; having the qualities of a picture or painting. scenic
* 1900 , , Chapter I,
As adjectives the difference between pastoral and picturesque
is that pastoral is of or pertaining to shepherds; hence, relating to rural life and scenes; as, a pastoral life while picturesque is resembling or worthy of a picture or painting; having the qualities of a picture or painting. scenic.As a noun pastoral
is a poem describing the life and manners of shepherds; a poem in which the speakers assume the character of shepherds; an idyll; a bucolic.pastoral
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(wikipedia pastoral)Adjective
(en adjective)- pastoral''' duties; a '''pastoral letter
Derived terms
* pastoral staff (Eccl .), a staff, usually of the form of a shepherd's crook, borne as an official emblem by a bishop, abbot, abbess, or other prelate privileged to carry it. See crook, and crosier. * pastoral theology, that part of theology which treats of the duties of pastors. * pastoralism * pastoralistNoun
(en noun)picturesque
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Alternative forms
* picture-skew (humorous)Adjective
(en adjective)- We looked down onto a beautiful, picturesque sunset over the ocean.
- A two minutes' walk brought Warwick--the name he had registered under, and as we shall call him--to the market-house, the central feature of Patesville, from both the commercial and the picturesque points of view.
