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An idyll (/ ˈ aɪ d ɪ l /, UK also / ˈ ɪ d ɪ l /; from Greek εἰδύλλιον (eidullion) 'short poem'; occasionally spelled idyl in American English) [1] [2] [3] is a short poem, descriptive of rustic life, written in the style of Theocritus's short pastoral poems, the Idylls (Εἰδύλλια). Unlike Homer, Theocritus did not engage ...
Today's Wordle Answer for #1302 on Saturday, January 11, 2025. Today's Wordle answer on Saturday, January 11, 2025, is DINGY. How'd you do? Next: Catch up on other Wordle answers from this week.
All pages with titles containing idyll or idylls; All pages with titles containing idyl or idyls; All pages with titles beginning with Idyl; Idyll XI (bucolic poem #11) by Theocritus; Idyll VI (bucolic poem #6) by Theocritus; Idyllic school (The Idyllists), 19th century British art movement; Ideal (disambiguation) Idol (disambiguation) Idle ...
Many of the Hindi and Urdu equivalents have originated from Sanskrit; see List of English words of Sanskrit origin. Many loanwords are of Persian origin; see List of English words of Persian origin, with some of the latter being in turn of Arabic or Turkic origin. In some cases words have entered the English language by multiple routes ...
Moses Indignant at the Golden Calf, painting by William Blake, 1799–1800. Idolatry is the worship of an idol as though it were a deity. [1] [2] [3] In Abrahamic religions (namely Judaism, Samaritanism, Christianity, the Baháʼí Faith, and Islam) idolatry connotes the worship of something or someone other than the Abrahamic God as if it were God.
Some words are also used wherein the original meaning has been changed or distorted: Mustaiki from mustaid = ready; bekar bahas (idle talk) gives bhikar bhaso (useless philosophising) kapan khairo - eater of one's own shroud - miser
Today's Wordle Answer for #1299 on Wednesday, January 8, 2025. Today's Wordle answer on Wednesday, January 8, 2025, is DRAFT. How'd you do? Next: Catch up on other Wordle answers from this week.
In "Idyll 11" Polyphemus is depicted as in love with the sea-nymph Galatea and finding solace in song. In "Idyll 6," he is cured of his passion and naively relates how he repulses the overtures now made to him by Galatea. The monster of Homer's Odyssey has been "written up to date" after the Alexandrian manner and has become a gentle simpleton. [6]