georgic








adjective

  1. agricultural.

noun

  1. a poem on an agricultural theme.

adjective

  1. literary agricultural

noun

  1. a poem about rural or agricultural life

1510s, Georgics, title of Virgil’s poems on rural life, from Latin georgica, from georgicus (adj.), from Greek georgikos “of a husbandman, agricultural,” from ge “earth” + ergon “work” (see urge (v.)). As an adjective meaning “related to agriculture” from 1711.

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