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Definition of "georgic" []

  • Of or relating to agriculture or rural life. (adjective)
  • A poem concerning farming or rural life. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "georgic" in a sentence
  • "I am hurrying on to Rome, and I have no time to write a georgic."
  • "He had collected his scattered odes and ballads, and published them, with his ambitious georgic, _The Hop Garden_, in the handsome quarto before us."
  • "Being -- a mere didactic phrase, the deity of a poet's georgic -- should adequately replace that eternal marvel of construction, by means of which the great churchmen had wrought dogma and liturgy and priest and holy office into every hour and every mood of men's lives."
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