georgic

[jawr-jik]

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adjective

noun

a poem on an agricultural theme.

Origin of georgic

1505–15; < Latin geōrgicus < Greek geōrgikós, equivalent to geōrg(ós) husbandman (geō- geo- + -ourgos working, worker, akin to érgon work) + -ikos -ic

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Related Words for georgic

provincial, idyllic, pastoral, agrarian, bucolic, rustic, backwoods, agricultural, homey, arcadian, countrified, farm, natural, ranch, simple, sylvan, unsophisticated, agronomic, georgic, outland

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Historical Examples of georgic

But there came an evening when we finished the Fourth Georgic together.
The Adventures of Harry Revel
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
For the tribute to Gallus in the original draft of Georgic iv.
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors
George Middleton
What remained to be said or sung about bees after the Fourth Georgic?
Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature
John Addington Symonds
The whole form had to stay back on the last day and write out a Georgic.
The Loom of Youth
Alec Waugh
Virgil in the third Georgic speaks of a murrain among cattle.
Epidemics Examined and Explained: or, Living Germs Proved by Analogy to be a Source of Disease
John Grove

British Dictionary definitions for georgic

georgic

adjective

literary agricultural

noun

a poem about rural or agricultural life

Word Origin for georgic

C16: from Latin geōrgicus, from Greek geōrgikos, from geōrgos farmer, from gē land, earth + -ourgos, from ergon work

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Word Origin and History for georgic

1510s, Georgics, title of Virgil's poems on rural life, from Latin georgica, from georgicus (adj.), from Greek georgikos "of a husbandman, agricultural," from ge "earth" + ergon "work" (see urge (v.)). As an adjective meaning "related to agriculture" from 1711.