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New development is virtually nonexistent in SF. Rent control is, at this point, an unmitigated disaster to a city that's still clinging to some 60s idyll. Personally I think NYC is far more attractive than the Bay Area in all ways but two: the weather and the inertia of existing tech companies.

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a musical composition that evokes rural life

Meaning at a glance

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noun

a musical composition that evokes rural life

noun

a short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for idyl.

Example sentences

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New development is virtually nonexistent in SF. Rent control is, at this point, an unmitigated disaster to a city that's still clinging to some 60s idyll. Personally I think NYC is far more attractive than the Bay Area in all ways but two: the weather and the inertia of existing tech companies.

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It posits that America's idyll of a tech-free natural scene is actually a balance of technology and nature, and is a artificial nature propped up by machine, and demonstrates this history of this tension in American life from Shakespeare to Jefferson to Thoreau to the modern day. It completely turned my conception of the perfect life upsidedown.

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How do you use idyl in a sentence?

New development is virtually nonexistent in SF. Rent control is, at this point, an unmitigated disaster to a city that's still clinging to some 60s idyll. Personally I think NYC is far more attractive than the Bay Area in all ways but two: the weather and the inertia of existing tech companies.

What does idyl mean?

a musical composition that evokes rural life

What part of speech is idyl?

idyl is commonly used as noun.