Pasture

//ˈpæs.t͡ʃɚ// noun, verb

noun, verb ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Land, specifically, an open field, on which livestock is kept for feeding. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle wordnet
  3. 3
    Ground covered with grass or herbage, used or suitable for the grazing of livestock. countable, uncountable

    "He maketh me to lie down in green pastures."

  4. 4
    a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock wordnet
  5. 5
    Food, nourishment. countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "Ne euer is he wont on ought to feed, / But toades and frogs, his pasture poysonous […]."

Verb
  1. 1
    To move animals into a pasture. transitive
  2. 2
    feed as in a meadow or pasture wordnet
  3. 3
    To graze. intransitive
  4. 4
    let feed in a field or pasture or meadow wordnet
  5. 5
    To feed, especially on growing grass; to supply grass as food for. transitive

    "The farmer pastures fifty oxen."

Synonyms

All synonyms
cropeatageappetitearable landbarleybarnyard

Example

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"The pasture has an area of 10 acres."

Etymology

From Middle English pasture, pastoure, borrowed from Anglo-Norman pastour, Old French pasture, from Latin pāstūra, from the stem of pāscō (“to feed, graze”).

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