Pasture

Quick meaning: Pasture is a noun meaning Land, specifically, an open field, on which livestock is kept for feeding.

Meaning

Land, specifically, an open field, on which livestock is kept for feeding.

More Meanings

1. Ground covered with grass or herbage, used or suitable for the grazing of livestock.
2. (transitive) To move animals into a pasture.
3. (intransitive) To graze.
4. (transitive) To feed, especially on growing grass; to supply grass as food for.
5. (obsolete) Food, nourishment.

Example Sentences

So graze as you find pasture.

The farmer pastures fifty oxen.

The land will pasture forty cows.

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.

Word Forms

• pastures
• pasturing
• pastured

Synonyms for pasture

Depending on context, synonyms include leasow, range, graze, crop, forage, grass.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pastureland, pasturage, eatage, forage, crop, lea.

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