English▸ noun an extremely happy, peaceful, or picturesque episode or scene, typically an idealized or unsustainable one:
the rural idyll remains strongly evocative in most industrialized societies.
▪ a short description in verse or prose of a picturesque scene or incident, especially in rustic life.
– ORIGIN late 16th century (in the Latin form): from Latin idyllium, from Greek eidullion, diminutive of eidos ‘form, picture’.