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noun

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Recent Examples of georgic
Adjective
And so the community would persist, a tableau of georgic calm sealed inside the bottle of a company town. Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for georgic
Adjective
  • The bucolic hamlet has maintained its charm even as growth has subtly changed the town’s complexion.
    Matthew Odam, Austin American Statesman, 7 July 2025
  • The campus would be located just north of I-74, across what are currently 15 bucolic properties bounded by East Raymond Street, Davis Road, Troy Avenue, and South Post Road.
    Ryan Murphy, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • His voice is the ghost in the machine, a strangely humane presence amid all the urban-industrial pastoral.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 25 Apr. 2025
  • This is rock and roll as pastoral.
    Mitch Therieau, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Yolo County’s agricultural zoning prohibits for storing fireworks, and the county had not granted any additional permit making an exception for the property, Yolo County spokesperson Laura Galindo said in an email.
    Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 12 July 2025
  • Hemp has become a key cog in Kentucky's agricultural economy.
    Lucas Aulbach, The Courier-Journal, 11 July 2025
Adjective
  • This approach helped transform the U.S. from an agrarian economy into an industrial powerhouse.
    Tim Overton, The Orlando Sentinel, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Policy Infrastructure The Code of Hammurabi, written around 1750 BCE, introduced laws to manage the complexity of agrarian society: contracts, labor terms, ownership rules.
    Solange Charas, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • Vo’s ongoing examination of empire and identity unfolds here as both monument and elegy.
    Nel-Olivia Waga, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
  • What if Durham’s vision for the sequel could be turned inside out, undergoing a transformation like The Greatest from retrospective to comeback, elegy to unfinished story.
    Melina Moe May 19, Literary Hub, 19 May 2025
Adjective
  • At both spatial scales, forested landscapes had the highest share of deciduous forests and the greatest connectivity of forest patches, hedgerows, and large groups of trees, whereas non-forested landscapes had a relatively large proportion of arable lands and the greatest vineyard-forest distances.
    GrrlScientist, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
  • News accounts of fires, floods, erupting volcanoes, plagues, the loss of arable land, and mass extinctions evoke a planet in collapse.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 16 June 2025
Noun
  • This whiskey is an ode to American travel and industry.
    Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
  • The restaurant is chef Nicolas Min Jørgensen’s ode to regional flavors achieved by expert sourcing and a palpable love for the area.
    Liz Provencher, Travel + Leisure, 12 July 2025
Noun
  • The poem was published in Shakespeare’s 1609 quarto of 154 sonnets, which wasn’t widely popular in its day.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Mar. 2025
  • At Paul Revere Junior High, Russell won first place at a Shakespeare Festival for his sonnet recitation.
    Katherine Turman, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2025

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“Georgic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/georgic. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.

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