georgic

[ jawr-jik ]

adjective

1. agricultural.

noun

1. a poem on an agricultural theme.

georgic

/ ˈdʒɔːdʒɪk /

adjective

1. literary.
   agricultural

noun

1. a poem about rural or agricultural life

Word History and Origins

Origin of georgic¹

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of georgic¹

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

Example Sentences

These, too, are tinged with premonitions of loss that give shape to their georgic pleasures.

From The New Yorker

But only Blunk, aware that Wright had translated Virgil’s Third “Georgic” and committed much of “My Antonia” to memory, can tell you for certain that Wright knew both versions and chose Cather’s.

From New York Times

There is an impulse in these poems to inventory the natural world without the palliatives of conventional description; the paradox, as old as classical pastoral and georgic, is that our nature is to describe, an imperative that seems perfectly unnatural when measured against the unselfconscious work of bees or ants or oxen.

From The New Yorker

A dog is “passant, sejant then couchant,” and beekeepers go about “their Georgic business…mobled in muslin, calm-browed comb-setters and swarm-handlers of the scattered thorps.”

From Slate

At the end of his first Georgic Virgil prays for the triumph of the one hope which the world saw—for the preservation and the rule of the young C�sar, and he sums up in a few lines the horror from which mankind seeks to be delivered.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• agrarian
• agricultural
• back-country
• backwoods
• bucolic
• idyllic
• pastoral
• provincial
• rustic