pastoral
Of or pertaining to shepherds or herders of other livestock.
Other meanings
Relating to rural life and scenes, in particular of poetry.
“We were living a pastoral life.”
Relating to the care of souls, toen the pastor of a church or to any local religious leader charged with the service of individual parishioners, i.e. a priest or rabbi.
“pastoral duties”
Related words
- cyberpastoral
- neopastoral
- pastoralise
- semipastoral
- silvopastoral
- agropastoral
- antipastoral
- nonpastoral
- pastoral care
- pastoral charge
- pastoral letter
- pastoralism
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “pastoral” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.