Ideal can also be a noun for anything that exemplifies a standard of perfection, beauty, or excellence: The Sierra Star (Oakhurst, Calif.), 24 Apr. This historic trail continues to follow along its banks lined with old growth trees which offer an ideal setting for trout fishing. Kathryn Harrison, Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured, 2014 The soil, dense, clayey, and rich in limestone, is ideal for pasturing livestock and for the cultivation of oats, wheat, rye, and hemp-as well as grapes. Something that is ideal is perfectly suitable, or it literally adheres to the idea of what is beautiful or excellent.
Idyll sounds very much like our more common adjective ideal, which is related to the noun idea. Kate Atkinson, Case Histories, 2004 Ideal Meaning She thought they should get some chickens of their own and perhaps a goat to milk, because maybe something was missing- maybe it would just take one fat white wyandotte to make the idyll possible. Jamie James, The Atlantic, February 1999 The Hawaiian literary community was desperately searching for a local voice to speak for the islands, to correct the idylls of outside writers from Twain to Michener, and Yamanaka showed all the signs of becoming that voice. The latter sense applies in the title of Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s Idylls of the King, a retelling of the King Arthur legend by way of a collection of twelve poems. Idyllic is based on the noun idyll, which is a short work of poetry or prose that describes rustic life or pastoral scenes, or it can be a narrative poem that treats an epic, romantic, or tragic theme.
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