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

Etymology

Origin of grazing

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

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

grazing grazings

The Cotswolds was badly hit by the drought, leaving grazing pastures brown and without any nutrition for the cows.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

These systems appear to result from lower-energy collisions, including grazing impacts between Moon-sized objects.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 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

Forest Service trailhead, and in summer you can see bison grazing near Spanish Creek, along with whitetail deer and occasionally a black bear or moose.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

He was thrown backward, grazing his skin on the ground.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

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

From New York Times ● May 2, 2015

Having secured this privilege, he posted himself fifteen or twenty miles to the southwest of Tegua, behind a butte which was extensive enough to conceal his wild cavalry, even in its grazings.

From Overland by J. W. (John William) De Forest

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

It is a wild country, scrub-covered, antelope-haunted plains rising into desolate hills, but there are many kloofs and valleys with rich water meadows and lush grazings, which formed natural granaries and depots for the enemy.

From The Great Boer War by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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