MEANING
A scene or period of simple, peaceful happiness, often idealized.
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- rural idyll
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Their rural idyll ended with the storm.
The chapter offered a brief idyll.
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Primary category: literary. Forms: Singular idyll; plural idylls. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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