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# pastoral

adjective (pastoral, no change); noun (pastoral, pastorals)

«pastoral» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Pastoral means about the countryside, farms and shepherds, and the simple life of country people. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pastoral/#m1)
2. (church use) A pastoral staff is a long stick carried by a bishop as a sign of office. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pastoral/#m2)

### In the lessons

in stories a peaceful country life with sheep and fields; in lessons a poem or painting of shepherds and farms

### Examples

- The poem described a pastoral scene of sheep on green hills. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pastoral/#x1)
- The farmers lived a quiet pastoral life. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pastoral/#x2)
- The bishop carried a pastoral staff. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pastoral/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «pastoral» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pastoral/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«pastoral» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/pastoral.html) on Mova free.