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{
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"idyl":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a lighthearted carefree episode that is a fit subject for an idyll":[],
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": a narrative poem (such as Tennyson's Idylls of the King ) treating an epic, romantic, or tragic theme":[],
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": a romantic interlude":[],
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": a simple descriptive work in poetry or prose that deals with rustic life or pastoral scenes or suggests a mood of peace and contentment":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"her year as a vineyard worker in the south of France was not the idyll that she had expected it to be",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"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",
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"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",
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"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",
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"Long before Tuesday, reality interfered with some visions of Uvalde as a pastoral idyll . \u2014 Teo Armus, Washington Post , 29 May 2022",
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"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",
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"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",
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"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",
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"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"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1586, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Latin idyllium , from Greek eidyllion , from diminutive of eidos form; akin to Greek idein to see \u2014 more at wit":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8\u012b-d\u1d4al",
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"British usually \u02c8i-(\u02cc)dil"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"binge",
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"fling",
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"frisk",
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"frolic",
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"gambol",
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"lark",
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"ploy",
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"revel",
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"rollick",
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"romp",
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"spree"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-223809",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"idyll":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a lighthearted carefree episode that is a fit subject for an idyll":[],
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": a narrative poem (such as Tennyson's Idylls of the King ) treating an epic, romantic, or tragic theme":[],
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": a romantic interlude":[],
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": a simple descriptive work in poetry or prose that deals with rustic life or pastoral scenes or suggests a mood of peace and contentment":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"her year as a vineyard worker in the south of France was not the idyll that she had expected it to be",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"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",
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"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",
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"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",
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"Long before Tuesday, reality interfered with some visions of Uvalde as a pastoral idyll . \u2014 Teo Armus, Washington Post , 29 May 2022",
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"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",
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"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",
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"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",
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"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"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1586, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Latin idyllium , from Greek eidyllion , from diminutive of eidos form; akin to Greek idein to see \u2014 more at wit":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8\u012b-d\u1d4al",
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"British usually \u02c8i-(\u02cc)dil"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"binge",
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"fling",
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"frisk",
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"frolic",
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"gambol",
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"lark",
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"ploy",
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"revel",
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"rollick",
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"romp",
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"spree"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-170820",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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}
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} |