swain
Pastoral young admirer
A swain is a young man, especially a country youth or a suitor courting a young woman.
The word is archaic and literary, surviving mainly in pastoral poetry and deliberately old-fashioned contexts: The fair maiden was pursued by many a lovesick swain.
It evokes rustic romance and simpler times.
suitor
One who seeks affection
paramour · sweetheart · lover · gallant · courtly · wooing · serenade · betrothal · truelove · ardor
shepherd
One who tends flocks
Arcadia · idyll · sylvan · agrarian · plowman · husbandman · crofter · herdsman · yokel · country
- loverslover, lovers, beloved, sweethearts, sweetheart
- obsolete relationship wordsbetrothed, beau, suitor, courting, troth
- pastoralshepherds, shepherd, shepherdess, flocks, meadows
- Pastoral Figuresshepherd, shepherdess, goatherd, herdsman, milkmaid
- Romantic FiguresRomeo, Juliet, Casanova, Don Juan, Cleopatra
- archaic Englishthou, thee, thy, thine, ye
rural vs urban identity
swaincity slicker
Savvy metropolitan dweller
city dweller · urbanite · sophisticate · cosmopolitan · townsman