Entry 2 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913 Bucolic /byo͞okäʹlĭk/ · Bu·col·ic · IPA /bjuˈkɑlɪk/ a. n. 01 a. Of or pertaining to the life and occupation of a shepherd; pastoral; rustic. 1. Of or pertaining to the life and occupation of a shepherd; pastoral; rustic. 02 n. A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life, manners, and occupation of shepherds; as, the Bucolics of Theocritus and Virgil. 1. A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life, manners, and occupation of shepherds; as, the Bucolics of Theocritus and Virgil.