rustic |
1. adj. Country-styled or pastoral; rural. | |
2. adj. Unfinished or roughly finished. | |
rustic manners | |
3. adj. Crude, rough. | |
rustic country where the sheep and cattle roamed freely | |
4. adj. Simple; artless; unaffected. | |
5. n. A (sometimes unsophisticated) person from a rural area. | |
pastoral |
1. adj. Of or pertaining to shepherds or herders | |
2. adj. Relating to rural life and scenes | |
We were living a pastoral life. | |
* He wanders west as far as Memphis, a solitary migrant upon that flat and pastoral landscape. - 1985 McCarthy, Blood Meridian, chapter | |
* ... these pastoral farms,/Green to the very door; and wreaths of smoke / Sent up, in silence, from among the trees! - 1798 Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey, lines 16-18. | |
3. adj. Relating to the care of souls, to the pastor of a church or to any local religious leader charged with the service of individual parishioners, i.e. a priest or rabbi. | |
pastoral duties; a pastoral letter | |
4. n. A poem describing the life and manners of shepherds; a poem in which the speakers assume the character of shepherds; an idyll; a bucolic. | |
5. n. (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. | |
6. n. (religion, Christianity) A letter of a pastor to his charge; specifically, a letter addressed by a bishop to his diocese. | |
7. n. (religion, Christianity) A letter of the House of Bishops, to be read in each parish. | |
country |
1. n. (chiefly British) An area of land; a district, region. | |
2. n. A set region of land having particular human occupation or agreed limits, especially inhabited by members of the same race, language speakers etc., or associated with a given person, occupation, speci | |
3. n. The territory of a nation, especially an independent nation state or formerly independent nation; a political entity asserting ultimate authority over a geographical area. | |
4. n. (usually preceded by “the”) A rural area, as opposed to a town or city; the countryside. | |
5. n. (ellipsis of country music) | |
6. n. (mining) The rock through which a vein runs. | |
7. n. (vulgar,) The female genitalia, especially the vagina. | |
8. adj. From or in the countryside or connected with it. | |
9. adj. Of or connected to country music. | |
styled |
1. adj. Set in place, arranged. | |
His styled hair was not as attractive as he thought. | |
2. v. simple past tense and past participle of style | |
style |
1. n. A manner of doing or presenting things, especially a fashionable one. | |
2. n. Flair; grace; fashionable skill. | |
As a dancer, he has a lot of style. | |
3. n. (botany) The stalk that connects the stigma(s) to the ovary in a pistil of a flower. | |
4. n. A traditional or legal term preceding a reference to a person who holds a title or post. | |
5. n. A traditional or legal term used to address a person who holds a title or post. | |
the style of Majesty | |
6. n. (nonstandard) A stylus. | |
7. n. (obsolete) A pen; an author's pen. | |
8. n. A sharp-pointed tool used in engraving; a graver. | |
9. n. A kind of blunt-pointed surgical instrument. | |
10. n. A long, slender, bristle-like process. | |
the anal styles of insects | |
11. n. The pin, or gnomon, of a sundial, the shadow of which indicates the hour. | |
12. n. (computing) A visual or other modification to text or other elements of a document, such as bold or italic. | |
applying styles to text in a wordprocessor | |
Cascading Style Sheets | |
13. v. To create or give a style, fashion or image to. | |
14. v. To call or give a name or title to. | |