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   idyll

   /ˈɪd(ɪ)l/

   noun

   • 1. an extremely happy, peaceful, or picturesque period or situation, typically an idealized or unsustainable one: "the rural idyll remains strongly evocative in most industrialized societies" Similar perfect timeideal timewonderful timemoment of blisshoneymoonparadiseheavenheaven on earthutopiafairylandGarden of EdenShangri-Laliterary:ArcadiaArcadyErewhonOpposite hell on earth
   • ▪ a short description in verse or prose of a picturesque scene or incident, especially in rustic life. Similar pastoralecloguegeorgicrural poem

   Word Origin late 16th century (in the Latin form): from Latin idyllium, from Greek eidullion, diminutive of eidos ‘form, picture’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. idyllist noun

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