Synonyms for georgic

Grammar : Adj

Spell : jawr-jik

Phonetic Transcription : ˈdʒɔr dʒɪk

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Définition of georgic

Origin : 1510s, Georgics, title of Virgil's poems on rural life, from Latin georgica, from georgicus (adj.), from Greek georgikos "of a husbandman, agricultural," from ge "earth" + ergon "work" (see urge (v.)). As an adjective meaning "related to agriculture" from 1711.

As in rural : adj country, not urban
As in country : adj rural, pastoral

Example sentences :

But there came an evening when we finished the Fourth Georgic together.
Extract from : « The Adventures of Harry Revel » by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

For the tribute to Gallus in the original draft of Georgic iv.
Extract from : « The Student's Companion to Latin Authors » by George Middleton

What remained to be said or sung about bees after the Fourth Georgic?
Extract from : « Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature » by John Addington Symonds

The whole form had to stay back on the last day and write out a Georgic.
Extract from : « The Loom of Youth » by Alec Waugh

Virgil in the third Georgic speaks of a murrain among cattle.
Extract from : « Epidemics Examined and Explained: or, Living Germs Proved by Analogy to be a Source of Disease » by John Grove

You will see by it how much his vile hint from the Georgic; and his rude one of my whining vocatives, have set me up.
Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 2 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson

He wrote very little altogether, but produced a piece called "Blenheim," and a sort of Georgic entitled "Cyder."
Extract from : « History of English Humour, Vol. 2 (of 2) » by Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange

Georgic, jorj′ik, adj. relating to agriculture or rustic affairs.
Extract from : « Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) » by Various

So Bob had to learn the fourth Georgic by heart, and did most of it (with extreme enjoyment) up in that very same tree.
Extract from : « Cradock Nowell, Vol. 2 (of 3) » by Richard Doddridge Blackmore

It was a sort of Georgic, giving complete instructions how apples are to be grown and cider to be made.
Extract from : « A Book of the West. Volume I Devon » by S. Baring-Gould

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