Crossword-Solution: IDYL 4 letters, 108 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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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.

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IDYL anagram IDLY

We have 108 clues for the answer “IDYL”

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Arthurian-type poem. 1 answer
Bit of bucolic verse 1 answer
Brief amour 1 answer
Bucolic lines 1 answer
Bucolic poem (Var.) 1 answer
Bucolic verse 1 answer
Charming country scene (var.) 1 answer
Charming scene 1 answer
Charming scene (Var.) 1 answer
Composition describing rural life (Var.) 1 answer
Composition that evokes rural life (Var.) 1 answer
Country poem 1 answer
Description of rustic life (var.) 1 answer
Descriptive poem. 1 answer
Form reinterpreted by Tennyson 1 answer
Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love," e.g. 1 answer
Musical composition evoking rural life (var.) 1 answer
Musical composition that evokes rural life 1 answer
Musical composition that evokes rural life (Var.) 1 answer
Ode to country life 1 answer
Old-fashioned poem 1 answer
One of many writings by Theocritus 1 answer
Paean to country life 1 answer
Pastoral composition (Var.) 1 answer
Pastoral music 1 answer
Pastoral piece (Var.) 1 answer
Pastoral piece of prose or poetry 1 answer
Pastoral poem (Var.) 1 answer
Pastoral verse (Abbr.) 1 answer
Pastoral verse (Var.) 1 answer
Pastoral work (Var.) 1 answer
Pastoral writing 1 answer
Picturesque episode 1 answer
Poem about country living 1 answer
Poem about pastoral life 1 answer
Poem about rustic life 1 answer
Poem consisting of a "little picture." 1 answer
Poem of everyday life 1 answer
Poem of the countryside 1 answer
Poem of the countryside (Var.) 1 answer
Poetic work by Tennyson 1 answer
Quaint literary work 1 answer
Quaint poem 1 answer
Romantic interlude (var.) 1 answer
Romanticized story 1 answer
Rural life poem (var.) 1 answer
Rustic poem: Var. 1 answer
Short descriptive poem 1 answer
Short descriptive poem (Var.) 1 answer
Short pastoral piece 1 answer
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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.
McTeague Frank Norris 2006
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.
The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke Rupert Brooke 1995
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.
Kansas Women in Literature Nettie Garmer Barker 2008
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.
The Quest of the Golden Girl Richard le Gallienne 1996
But Captain Whalley could in a half hour of solitude live again all his life, with its romance, its idyl, and its sorrow.
End of the Tether Joseph Conrad 2006
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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).