{
  "idyl":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a lighthearted carefree episode that is a fit subject for an idyll":[],
      ": a narrative poem (such as Tennyson's Idylls of the King ) treating an epic, romantic, or tragic theme":[],
      ": a romantic interlude":[],
      ": a simple descriptive work in poetry or prose that deals with rustic life or pastoral scenes or suggests a mood of peace and contentment":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "her year as a vineyard worker in the south of France was not the idyll that she had expected it to be",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Gradually, however, in the 1980s, Duplin\u2019s pastoral idyll becomes a mephitic dead zone, thanks to the nightmarish business scheme of an ambitious hog farmer named Wendell H. Murphy. \u2014 Jeff Calder, ajc , 3 June 2022",
      "But, in similar movements\u2014among them Amsterdam\u2019s Stop de Kindermood (Stop Killing Children) campaign of the seventies, which turned that city into a bike idyll \u2014mothers, bearing an anguish poignant to the public, had proved effective as victims. \u2014 Danyoung Kim, The New Yorker , 2 June 2022",
      "This past spring, a small group of women gathered at the Beaverbrook estate in Surrey, England, a 470-acre country idyll outside London that once received guests including Elizabeth Taylor and Ian Fleming. \u2014 Fiorella Valdesolo, Vogue , 1 June 2022",
      "Long before Tuesday, reality interfered with some visions of Uvalde as a pastoral idyll . \u2014 Teo Armus, Washington Post , 29 May 2022",
      "After months of next to no infections, omicron shattered Hong Kong\u2019s virus-free idyll and caught authorities unprepared. \u2014 Shirley Zhao, Bloomberg.com , 16 Feb. 2022",
      "The utopia of Dickens\u2019s fiction, also impossibly outdated today, maybe even outdated in 1850, is the domestic idyll . \u2014 The New Yorker , 28 Feb. 2022",
      "The Budapest of von Neumann\u2019s childhood, the fin of a buoyant si\u00e8cle, was a cosmopolitan idyll in which Jews were able to prosper, and the von Neumanns could afford tutors, country homes, and private libraries. \u2014 Samanth Subramanian, The New Republic , 8 Mar. 2022",
      "After an idyll punctuated by shoplifting, drunken nights and Nick\u2019s promiscuity, the twins return home, maintaining their estrangement from their mother. \u2014 Washington Post , 25 Jan. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1586, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin idyllium , from Greek eidyllion , from diminutive of eidos form; akin to Greek idein to see \u2014 more at wit":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8\u012b-d\u1d4al",
      "British usually \u02c8i-(\u02cc)dil"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "binge",
      "fling",
      "frisk",
      "frolic",
      "gambol",
      "lark",
      "ploy",
      "revel",
      "rollick",
      "romp",
      "spree"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-223809",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "idyll":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a lighthearted carefree episode that is a fit subject for an idyll":[],
      ": a narrative poem (such as Tennyson's Idylls of the King ) treating an epic, romantic, or tragic theme":[],
      ": a romantic interlude":[],
      ": a simple descriptive work in poetry or prose that deals with rustic life or pastoral scenes or suggests a mood of peace and contentment":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "her year as a vineyard worker in the south of France was not the idyll that she had expected it to be",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Gradually, however, in the 1980s, Duplin\u2019s pastoral idyll becomes a mephitic dead zone, thanks to the nightmarish business scheme of an ambitious hog farmer named Wendell H. Murphy. \u2014 Jeff Calder, ajc , 3 June 2022",
      "But, in similar movements\u2014among them Amsterdam\u2019s Stop de Kindermood (Stop Killing Children) campaign of the seventies, which turned that city into a bike idyll \u2014mothers, bearing an anguish poignant to the public, had proved effective as victims. \u2014 Danyoung Kim, The New Yorker , 2 June 2022",
      "This past spring, a small group of women gathered at the Beaverbrook estate in Surrey, England, a 470-acre country idyll outside London that once received guests including Elizabeth Taylor and Ian Fleming. \u2014 Fiorella Valdesolo, Vogue , 1 June 2022",
      "Long before Tuesday, reality interfered with some visions of Uvalde as a pastoral idyll . \u2014 Teo Armus, Washington Post , 29 May 2022",
      "After months of next to no infections, omicron shattered Hong Kong\u2019s virus-free idyll and caught authorities unprepared. \u2014 Shirley Zhao, Bloomberg.com , 16 Feb. 2022",
      "The utopia of Dickens\u2019s fiction, also impossibly outdated today, maybe even outdated in 1850, is the domestic idyll . \u2014 The New Yorker , 28 Feb. 2022",
      "The Budapest of von Neumann\u2019s childhood, the fin of a buoyant si\u00e8cle, was a cosmopolitan idyll in which Jews were able to prosper, and the von Neumanns could afford tutors, country homes, and private libraries. \u2014 Samanth Subramanian, The New Republic , 8 Mar. 2022",
      "After an idyll punctuated by shoplifting, drunken nights and Nick\u2019s promiscuity, the twins return home, maintaining their estrangement from their mother. \u2014 Washington Post , 25 Jan. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1586, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin idyllium , from Greek eidyllion , from diminutive of eidos form; akin to Greek idein to see \u2014 more at wit":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8\u012b-d\u1d4al",
      "British usually \u02c8i-(\u02cc)dil"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "binge",
      "fling",
      "frisk",
      "frolic",
      "gambol",
      "lark",
      "ploy",
      "revel",
      "rollick",
      "romp",
      "spree"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-170820",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  }
}