georgic
Americanadjective
noun
adjective
noun
Etymology
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
Example Sentences
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God’s promise to Noah after the Flood, an Old Testament blessing, joins with hints of the georgic and pastoral poetry of Horace and Virgil.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
I am hurrying on to Rome, and I have no time to write a georgic.
From The Path to Rome by Belloc, Hilaire
Such unpoetic toils never could have inspired the georgic muse of Vergil or Thomson.
From The Awakening of China by Martin, W. A. P. (William Alexander Parsons)
He had collected his scattered odes and ballads, and published them, with his ambitious georgic, The Hop Garden, in the handsome quarto before us.
From Gossip in a Library by Gosse, Edmund
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