georgic means relating to rural affairs. It carries an Arena rating of 1649, earned across 3 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, georgic ranks #825 of 17,143 for Best Fossil-Poetry Words, #2,303 of 17,104 for Most Storied Words, #2,463 of 17,149 for Most Exacting Words, #2,506 of 17,130 for Most Beautiful Words.
Why “georgic” is a great word
Relating to agriculture or rural life, or a poem or work that treats of farming and rural labor. From Latin geōrgicus, from Ancient Greek γεωργικός (geōrgikós), from γεωργός (geōrgós, "farmer, earth-worker"), from γῆ (gê, "earth") + ἔργον (érgon, "work"). First attested in English in the early 16th century with reference to Virgil's poems. Unlike "pastoral," which paints an idyllic scene of serene shepherds, or "agronomy," a technical science of soil and yield, the georgic is a literature of grit and technique. It is the ache in the lower back at dusk, the precise depth to plant a winter grain, and the patient, mud-crusted vigil over weather and blight—a testament that cultivation is never a mere backdrop for sentiment, but the central, wearying act by which order is wrested, season by season, from a grudging world.
Etymology
From Latin georgicum, georgicus, from Ancient Greek γεωργός (geōrgós, “farmer, earth worker”), from γῆ (gê, “earth”) (combining form γεω- (geō-)) + ἔργον (érgon, “work”).
adj
- Relating to rural affairs.e.g.“georgic life”
noun
- A rural poem; a poetical composition on husbandry, containing rules for cultivating land, etc.
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