idyll
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- noun
- /ˈɪdɪl/
:
idilio
- The couple enjoyed a tranquil idyll in the countryside away from the city's chaos.
Examples
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Yet the modern world, rather than litter, was the serious threat to the pastoral idyll of Bar Harbor.
Academic text (1993) -
Perhaps it had all been a dream, and their beautiful idyll was just a figment of her imagination.
Fiction book (1992) -
Too soon, the idyll was over.
Fiction book (1991) -
Even today, I remember that trip as a kind of idyll.
Fiction book (1992) -
Tuscany is a romantic idyll.
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Even before she returns to Ohio, however, it's plain that the lovers' idyll will fail.
Academic text (2000) -
I noticed that even for the honeymooning pair, the idyll was suspended.
Fiction book (1992) -
And she retreated into the idyll of her Tara, as it had been and as she'd make it again.
Fiction book (1991) -
Looking back at it now, Berliners, too, speak of it as an "idyll" when they lived their isolated but protected lives, and when an older tempo prevailed.
Academic text (1992) -
Recalling banishment, mourning your parents' bad marriage -- what point is there to casting back longingly to the idyll?
Fiction book (2001)
Synonyms
An ideal peaceful countryside in poems and art
Antonyms
How Peaceful
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Etymology
Idyll originally comes from Greek eidyllion, a 'little picture' of calm life, so people use idyll for a short, perfect time of happiness and simplicity. That's why calling a time an idyll means it felt peaceful and charming, often like life in the countryside.