as in rural
of, relating to, associated with, or typical of open areas with few buildings or people
a bucolic region where farms are still common
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Recent Examples of bucolic
The bucolic lands, home to cutting, reining and full-care breeding and foaling among many operations, sit 18 miles northwest of Weatherford.
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Nick Wooten, Dallas Morning News, 14 Jan. 2026
Etna Occupying one of the prettiest rooms at Monaci Delle Terre Nere, a bucolic wine estate and 18th-century baronial house reimagined as a boutique hotel, Locanda Nerello tickles the bon viveurs before the photogenic plates are served or the wine poured into paper-thin glasses.
—Rosalyn Wikeley, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Jan. 2026
For years, residents living amid the tracts of suburban sprawl and bucolic farmland along Santa Clara County’s southern reaches often traveled upwards of an hour by car to seek cardiac care in San Jose.
—Grace Hase, Mercury News, 7 Jan. 2026
This cream-of-the-crop hospitality, not to mention Wildflower Farms’ bucolic, utopia-evoking environs, seems like an ideal gateway for Abask — which, since 2022, has been in the business of breathing an air of unfussy refinement into the home decor space — to do its best work.
—Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 30 Dec. 2025
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Nick Wooten, Dallas Morning News, 14 Jan. 2026
Etna Occupying one of the prettiest rooms at Monaci Delle Terre Nere, a bucolic wine estate and 18th-century baronial house reimagined as a boutique hotel, Locanda Nerello tickles the bon viveurs before the photogenic plates are served or the wine poured into paper-thin glasses.
—Rosalyn Wikeley, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Jan. 2026
For years, residents living amid the tracts of suburban sprawl and bucolic farmland along Santa Clara County’s southern reaches often traveled upwards of an hour by car to seek cardiac care in San Jose.
—Grace Hase, Mercury News, 7 Jan. 2026
This cream-of-the-crop hospitality, not to mention Wildflower Farms’ bucolic, utopia-evoking environs, seems like an ideal gateway for Abask — which, since 2022, has been in the business of breathing an air of unfussy refinement into the home decor space — to do its best work.
—Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 30 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bucolic
rural
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Cardi’s rendition of the story is set against the backdrop of the opioid crisis on a farm in rural Maine, where Pia and her brother Max live with their strict and controlling father, Leo.—
Caroline Carlson,
Literary Hub,
2 Feb. 2026
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Theaters in rural areas also brought in an outsize 46% of the weekend draw, which is unusually high for an opening.—
Brie Stimson,
FOXNews.com,
1 Feb. 2026
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“Bucolic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bucolic. Accessed 4 Feb. 2026.
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