idyll

• idyl

From Latin īdyllium, from Ancient Greek εἰδύλλιον (eidúllion), from diminutive of εἶδος (eîdos, “form, shape”).

• (UK) enPR: ĭdʹĭl, ĭdʹəl; IPA^(key): /ˈɪd.ɪl/, /ˈɪd.əl/

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• Rhymes: -ɪdɪl, -ɪdəl
• (US) enPR: īʹdĭl, īʹdəl; IPA^(key): /ˈaɪ.dɪl/, /ˈaɪ.dəl/
• Rhymes: -aɪdɪl, -aɪdəl
• Homophones: idle, idol (US)

idyll (plural idylls)

1. Any poem or short written piece composed in the style of Theocritus's short pastoral poems, the Idylls.
2. An episode or series of events or circumstances of pastoral or rural simplicity, fit for an idyll; a carefree or lighthearted experience.
3. (music) A composition, usually instrumental, of a pastoral or sentimental character, e.g. Siegfried Idyll by Richard Wagner.

• idyllic
• idyllical
• idyllically
• idyllist, idylist

• idyll on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “idyll”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “idyl”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Dilly, dilly

idyll

1. alternative form of ydel (“empty”)

idyll

1. alternative form of ydel (“idleness”)

From Latin idyllium, from Ancient Greek εἰδύλλιον (eidúllion). Cognate with Danish idyl, English idyll and German Idyll, used since 1781. Doublet of idé and idol.

idyll c

1. an idyllic place or circumstance, an idyll
2. artistic expression dealing with the above, an idyll

• idyll in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• idyll in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• idyll in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• idyll in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)