Crossword-Solution: IDYL
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Idyl | n. | A short poem; properly, a short pastoral poem; as, the idyls of Theocritus; also, any poem, especially a narrative or descriptive poem, written in an eleveted and highly finished style; also, by extension, any artless and easily flowing description, either in poetry or prose, of simple, rustic life, of pastoral scenes, and the like. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| IDYL | anagram | IDLY |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with IDYL (5)
This poor crude dentist of Polk Street, stupid, ignorant, vulgar, with his sham education and plebeian tastes, whose only relaxations were to eat, to drink steam beer, and to play upon his concertina, was living through his first romance, his first idyl.
The second great success of his genius, formally considered, lay in the narrative idyl, either in the Miltonic way of flashing bits of English country landscape before the eye, as in "Grantchester", or by applying essentially the same method to the water world of fishes or the South Sea world, both on a philosophic background.
Her "Atlantic" is a story of the rebellion; "Utah and Other Poems;" "A Prairie Idyl;" "Flowers and a Weed;" and "Rubaiyat of Solomon Valley" are volumes of verse.
Like many of us, he has been captivated by her naturalness, her naivete, her clear good eyes,--that look of nature that is always art! May I relate the idyl of your tragic passion, dear Dubois, as an object lesson?" The Frenchman bowed, and signed William to proceed.
But Captain Whalley could in a half hour of solitude live again all his life, with its romance, its idyl, and its sorrow.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 158 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).