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Shop at the Dictionary.com Store! T-shirts, hats, mugs, and more. Featuring Doctor Dictionary. Click here: http://www.dictionary.com/store/index.html?wotd <a href="http://www.dictionary.com/store/index.html?wotd"< AOL users click here</a< =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Word of the Day for Wednesday October 24, 2001: idyll \EYE-dl\, noun: 1. A simple descriptive work, either in poetry or prose, dealing with simple, rustic life; pastoral scenes; and the like. 2. A narrative poem treating an epic, romantic, or tragic theme. 3. A lighthearted carefree episode or experience. 4. A romantic interlude. Sheep are not the docile, pleasant creatures of the pastoral idyll. Any countryman will tell you that. They are sly, occasionally vicious, pathologically stupid. --Joanne Harris, [1]Chocolat From too much looking back, he was destroyed,... trying to re-create an idyll that never truly existed except in his own imagination. --Gore Vidal, [2]The Essential Gore Vidal [S]he kept a diary that poignantly captured the sense of youthful gaiety shattered by events suddenly intruding on their teenage idyll. --James T. Fisher, Dr. America: The Lives of Thomas A. Dooley, 1927-1961 The Guevaras' honeymoon idyll, such as it was, did not last long. --Jon Lee Anderson, [3]Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life _________________________________________________________ Idyll ultimately derives from Greek eidullion, "a short descriptive poem (usually on pastoral subjects); an idyll," from eidos, "that which is seen; form; shape; figure." The adjective form is idyllic. References 1. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/014100018X/lexico 2. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679457461/lexico 3. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0802135587/lexico _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ You are currently subscribed to Dictionary.com Word of the Day as: susan.w.pereira@enron.com To subscribe to the list by email, send a blank message to: join-WordoftheDay@lists.lexico.com To unsubscribe via email, send a blank message to: leave-wordoftheday-301289Q@lists.lexico.com Subscriptions can be turned on and off from the Web at http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/list/ Dictionary.com Word of the Day http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/ (C) 2001, Lexico LLC.
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