pastorale

What does pastorale mean?

pastorale means "a musical composition that evokes rural life".

How many syllables are in pastorale?

pastorale has 4 syllables: pa-sto-ra-le. The stress falls on "sto".

What is another word for pastorale?

Close synonyms include pastoral, idyll, idyl. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pastorale a common word?

pastorale is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pastorale come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.