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georgic

American  
[jawr-jik] / ˈdʒɔr dʒɪk /

adjective

  1. agricultural.

noun

  1. a poem on an agricultural theme.

georgic British  
/ ˈdʒɔːdʒɪk /

adjective

  1. literary agricultural

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noun

  1. a poem about rural or agricultural life

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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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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)

I am hurrying on to Rome, and I have no time to write a georgic.

From The Path to Rome by Belloc, Hilaire

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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