Dictionary definition · pastoral
noun
- a musical composition that evokes rural life
- a letter from a pastor to the congregation
- a literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds)
adjective
- of or relating to a pastor"pastoral work"
- relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle"pastoral seminomadic people"
- (used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic"a country life of arcadian contentment"
Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).