how to pronounce bucolic

/bjuˈkɑːlɪk/

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bucolic is pronounced in three syllables

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bjukɑːlɪk

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An example use of bucolic in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… quietly grazing a bucolic image of rural …”

meanings of bucolic

adjective:

  1. Pertaining to herdsmen or peasants.
  2. Relating to the pleasant aspects of rustic country life.
  3. Rustic, pastoral, country-styled.

noun:

  1. A pastoral poem.
  2. A rustic, peasant.

bucolic frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word bucolic occurs in english on average 0.4 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics bucolic can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that bucolic can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;

words with pronunciation similar to bucolic

bulimic

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