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

They had more or less run amuck and were damming up rivers and flooding highways, filling pastures, even beginning to invade the cities.

From Literature

Some I spoke to look at the landscape and see only lost livestock pasture and question how their way of life and livelihoods fit into such a future.

From BBC

At that time, we were running through rolling pastures and open fields with good visibility.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Just last week I put an extra rail on the pasture fence. It didn’t do any good though. She sailed over it as if it wasn’t even there.”

From Literature

I wondered if I could slip into the pasture and milk one of the cows.

From Literature

Related Words

• grass
• grazing
• meadow