Read the dictionary definition of pastoral. All definitions for this word.
1. a literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds)
2. a letter from a pastor to the congregation
3. a musical composition that evokes rural life
4. (used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic
1. a country life of arcadian contentment
2. a pleasant bucolic scene
3. charming in its pastoral setting
4. rustic tranquility
5. of or relating to a pastor
1. pastoral work
2. a pastoral letter
6. relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle
1. pastoral seminomadic people
2. pastoral land
3. a pastoral economy