Pastoral is valid Scrabble Word

Is pastoral a scrabble word?
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8 letters word
10 points in Scrabble
12 points in WWF

Definitions for PASTORAL in dictionary:

NOUN:

a pastoral poem, play etc.
a work of literature portraying an idealized version of country life
A poem describing the life and manners of shepherds; a poem in which the speakers assume the character of shepherds; an idyl; a bucolic.
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.
A letter of a pastor to his charge; specifically, a letter addressed by a bishop to his diocese; also (Prot. Epis. Ch.), a letter of the House of Bishops, to be read in each parish.
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)
poem or picture portraying country life

ADJECTIVE:

of literature, music, or works of art, portraying rural life or the life of shepherds, esp. in an idealized or romantic form

(of land) used for the keeping or grazing of sheep or cattle
associated with country life
(of a work of art) portraying or evoking country life, typically in a romanticized or idealized form.
(in the Christian Church) concerning or appropriate to the giving of spiritual guidance
of or depicting country life
Of or pertaining to shepherds; hence, relating to rural life and scenes; as, a pastoral life.
Relating to the care of souls, or to the pastor of a church; as, pastoral duties; a pastoral letter.
of or relating to a pastor
relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle
(used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic
relating to or denoting a teacher's responsibility for the general well-being of pupils or students

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

a literary or artistic work that depicts country life

Words related to PASTORAL

pastorally15 pastorals11

Words that contain PASTORAL

pastorale11 pastorali11 pastorals11 pastorales12 pastorally15 unpastoral12 pastoralism15 pastoralist13 pastoralisms16 pastoralists14 pastoralness14 pastoralnesses16

How to use PASTORAL in a sentence

Afterwards his pastoral cross and 300 francs were found about him.
The episode in its original form ended with the introduction of Enkidu first to pastoral life, and then to the still higher city life with regulated forms of social existence.
We have continued the same pastoral care of that church.
Nor did the friars limit themselves to pastoral care.
Its purpose was to instruct Timothy with regard to his pastoral duties.
It is a famous pastoral country, inhabited by a people for years held under the Ottoman heel.
Their pastoral letters, directed to the lay Catholics of England, were printed and dispersed by the express allowance and permission of the king.
With this combination of pastoral work and college life Mackenzie was perfectly satisfied and happy, but in another year the turning-point of his life was reached.
In that case he would submit to the rod of chastisement, instead of receiving the staff of pastoral cure, and if he were forbidden to instruct others, he would discipline himself.
Song is, indeed, as old as human language, and in a sense no doubt the poetry of the pastoral age may be said to have been pastoral.

The conception of a golden age of rustic simplicity does not, indeed, involve the whole of pastoral literature.
That discourse, it is true, runs on pastoral themes, but the disguise and allegory have worn thin with centuries of use.
And yet, strangely enough, not a little of the convention at least of chivalrous love survives in the debased Arcadian love of the sentimental pastoral.
The whole piece, however, is in the style of the Hispano-French romance, in which pastoral or pseudo-pastoral plays so large a part.
The strife was stayed, and, the deserts of either party being duly set forth, the Lady referred the choice to the Queen, who decided in favour of the pastoral suitor.
It is possible that some court-plays may show the influence of the artificial arrangement of characters and the conventional play of motives characteristic of the pastoral drama.
That the pastoral should flourish by the side of the romantic drama was not to be expected.
Stiefel, who incidentally announced that he was himself engaged on a comprehensive history of the pastoral drama.
Wells Brothers were being thrown in contact with the most practical men that the occupation, in all pastoral ages, had produced.
The pastoral provinces were no Dresden-china Arcadia.
The pastoral tenants nearly everywhere disliked the democratic note growing louder in some of them.
They had reached the fortieth year of pastoral service.
Pastoral, like all Poetry, should aim at Pleasure and Profit.
To hasten therefore to enquire what kind of Moral is proper for Pastoral, we must look back into the Reasons prescribed by Nature for the Morals in all Sorts of Poetry.

Similar words containing PASTOR without suffix al

pastor8 pastors9 copastor12 pastored11 pastorly13 copastors13 pastorale11 pastorali11 pastorals11 pastorate11 pastoring12 pastorium13 pastorales12 pastorally15 pastorates12 pastoriums14 pastorship17 unpastoral12 pastorlier12 pastoralism15 pastoralist13 pastorships18 pastorliest13 pastoralisms16 pastoralists14 pastoralness14 pastoralnesses16

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