pasture

¹ American  

[pas-cher, pahs-] / ˈpæs tʃər, ˈpɑs- /

noun

1. Also called pastureland.  an area covered with grass or other plants used or suitable for the grazing of livestock; grassland.

2. a specific area or piece of such ground.

3. grass or other plants for feeding livestock.

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verb (used with object)

pastured, pasturing

1. to feed (livestock) by putting them out to graze on pasture.

2. (of land) to furnish with pasture.

3. (of livestock) to graze upon.

verb (used without object)

pastured, pasturing

1. (of livestock) to graze in a pasture.

idioms

1. put out to pasture,

   1. to put in a pasture to graze.

   2. to dismiss, retire, or use sparingly as being past one's or its prime.

      Most of our older employees don't want to be put out to pasture.

Pasture ² American  

[pah-tyr] / pɑˈtür /

noun

1. Rogier or Roger de la Weyden, Rogier van der.

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pasture British  

/ ˈpɑːstʃə /

noun

1. land covered with grass or herbage and grazed by or suitable for grazing by livestock

2. a specific tract of such land

3. the grass or herbage growing on it

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verb

1. (tr) to cause (livestock) to graze or (of livestock) to graze (a pasture)

pasture More Idioms  

1. see put out to grass (pasture).

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Other Word Forms

• pastural adjective
• pastureless adjective
• pasturer noun
• unpastured adjective

Etymology

Origin of pasture

1250–1300; Middle English < Middle French < Late Latin pāstūra, equivalent to Latin pāst ( us ), past participle of pāscere to feed, pasture ( pastor ) + -ūra -ure

Example Sentences

As for the bandits in Jibia, they requested access to clean drinking water and safe passage for their cattle as they moved to new grazing pastures.

From BBC

Meatpackers including Tyson have been losing hundreds of millions of dollars processing beef because of the lowest amount of cattle on U.S. pastures since the 1950s.

From The Wall Street Journal

Creators leave their old networks for greener pastures all the time, but the licenses to their titles stay with the company that originally produced them.

From Salon

About 30 million sheep inhabit Britain’s pastures, but its vast network of hand-built, dry-stone walls—there are 20,000 miles of them in Yorkshire alone—ceased to require upkeep after the invention of electric fences.

From The Wall Street Journal

Ireland's pastures, long symbols of national identity and prosperity, have become flashpoints in the debate over how a small island can meet big climate promises.

From Barron's

Related Words

• grass
• grazing
• meadow