<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>having the simplicity, charm, serenity, or other characteristics generally attributed to rural areas: pastoral scenery; the pastoral life.</li><li>Synonyms: simple, rural, rustic.</li><li>pertaining to the country or to life in the country; rural; rustic.</li><li>portraying or suggesting idyllically the life of shepherds or of the country, as a work of literature, art, or music: pastoral poetry; a pastoral symphony.</li><li>Synonyms: idyllic, bucolic.</li><li>of, relating to, or consisting of shepherds.</li><li>of or relating to a pastor or the duties of a pastor: pastoral visits to a hospital.</li><li>used for pasture, as land.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a poem, play, or the like, dealing with the life of shepherds, commonly in a conventional or artificial manner, or with simple rural life generally; a bucolic.</li><li>Synonyms: georgic, idyll, eclogue.</li><li>a picture or work of art representing the shepherds' life.</li><li>Music: pastorale.</li><li>a treatise on the duties of a pastor.</li><li>a letter to the people from their spiritual pastor.</li><li>a letter to the clergy or people of an ecclesiastical district from its bishop.</li></ul>