1. 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"Similarperfect timeideal timewonderful timemoment of blisshoneymoonparadiseheavenheaven on earthutopiafairylandGarden of EdenShangri-Laliterary:ArcadiaArcadyErewhonOppositehell on earth
▪ a short description in verse or prose of a picturesque scene or incident, especially in rustic life.Similarpastoralecloguegeorgicrural poem
Word Originlate 16th century (in the Latin form): from Latin idyllium, from Greek eidullion, diminutive of eidos ‘form, picture’.