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# pastoral

«pastoral» in Mova's school dictionary: **about the countryside, farms and shepherds, and the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

1) Pastoral means about the countryside, farms and shepherds, and the simple life of country people. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pastoral/#m2)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pastoral/#x1)
- The farmers lived a quiet pastoral life. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pastoral/#x2)
- The bishop carried a pastoral staff. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pastoral/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pastoral» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pastoral/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.