grazing

American  

[gray-zing] / ˈgreɪ zɪŋ /

noun

• grazings
  plural

1. pastureland; a pasture.

2. Informal. the act or practice of switching television channels frequently to watch several programs.

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grazing British  

/ ˈɡreɪzɪŋ /

noun

1. the vegetation on pastures that is available for livestock to feed upon

2. the land on which this is growing

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• grazings
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of grazing

late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; see origin at graze ¹, -ing ¹

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

grazing grazings

Behind guarded gates resembling an Indian maharajah's palace are hundreds of elephants and big cats, giraffes grazing in a mock savannah, and chimpanzees and orangutans swinging from ropes.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

Morton explained that many of the larger blazes began as deliberately set fires used for land management, such as removing shrubs from grazing land or clearing crop residue from fields.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

Ground beef prices have risen since last year to $6.79 per pound from $5.55 per pound, largely because of declining U.S. cattle herd size and a severe drought that damaged grazing conditions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

Based on his observations thus far, Spasojevic believes the burros could play an important role in the local ecosystem by grazing on non-native grasses and preventing them from overtaking native plants.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

It was only a short way to the ford of the river, near the priory, and from there across fields covered with grazing sheep to the forest.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli

Livestock are moved from one paddock to another, allowing pastures rest between grazings.

From New York Times ● May 2, 2015

He rented large grazings in Dumfriesshire, where he wintered and grazed the Highlanders, and which, I believe, his relatives still retain.

From Cattle and Cattle-breeders by William M'Combie

The milch cows were fed below, except during the time the farmer's family removed to the distant grazings called sheilings.

From Folklore as an Historical Science by George Laurence Gomme

Instead, the thin sheep of the clansmen, each with its owner's brand to identify it, wander forth to the common grazings, glad that the bloom of living is on Nature again.

From The Black Colonel by James Milne

Those having the ditch on the outer side are always the earlier, the ditch being the defence against the cattle that strayed on the unenclosed common or grazings outside.

From The Naturalist on the Thames by C. J. (Charles John) Cornish

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