pastoralist

adjective

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as in pastoral

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  1. pastoral
  2. agricultural
  3. bucolic
  4. agrarian
  5. arable
Adjective
  • Now that the writing was on the wall, the pastoral quality of the Williams-cast was like a balm to my ears.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Today, its 12 suites are ideal for travelers looking for a taste of modern luxury in heart of a pastoral small town.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 2 Nov. 2024
Definition of pastoral
Adjective
  • From energy innovation to agricultural technology and exports, the U.S. economy stands to gain from the power that the G-20 wields to focus priorities and encourage investment on a global scale.
    Leslie Vinjamuri, Foreign Affairs, 15 Nov. 2024
  • The National Park Service has said that if agricultural operators lose their leases there, all people living on those farms and ranches would have to leave.
    Richard Halstead, The Mercury News, 14 Nov. 2024
Definition of agricultural
Adjective
  • The shift from an office with rising music to a bucolic scene with only ambient noise (and a decidedly unbucolic conversation) is subtly unsettling.
    Mark Peikert, IndieWire, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The film begins in bucolic enough fashion, with a close-up of a baby crib mobile that might suggest peaceful nights and mornings in which a child is lulled into serenity.
    Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of bucolic
Adjective
  • Such stories had powerful meanings for agrarian societies with ghosts representing the desires and experiences of peasant society.
    Tithi Bhattacharya / Made by History, TIME, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Their routines have long endured on the fringes of their worlds, with Nina driving back and forth from her plain, modern life and the wilds of the mountain villages and Walter’s sometimes agrarian, sometimes intellectual upbringing.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2024
Definition of agrarian
Adjective
  • The country itself is the fourth wealthiest in the EU, with a GDP per capita of $52,000 (€48,000) and the CIA World Factbook lists its natural resources as petroleum, natural gas, fish, arable land, salt, limestone, chalk, stone, gravel and sand.
    Alex Ledsom, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Low-lying cities such as Samarkand and Tashkent, which have the arable land and irrigation necessary to support their bustling populations, are seen as having been the real destinations for trade.
    Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2024
Definition of arable
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