pasture

Definition of pasture in English English dictionary: Food, nourishment
Ne euer is he wont on ought to feed, / But toades and frogs, his pasture poysonous .; To graze; land on which cattle can be kept for feeding; Ground covered with grass or herbage, used or suitable for the grazing of livestock; To move animals into a pasture to graze; {v} to put in a pasture, graze, feed, fatten; {n} land used for grazing, feed, education; pasturage; An area devoted to producing forage (introduced or native); grass or other growing plants harvested by grazing and usually enclosed and separated from other areas by a fence or wall; {i} grazing land, grassy area where livestock graze; feed as in a meadow or pasture; "the herd was grazing"; A type of grazing management unit enclosed and separated from other areas by fencing or other barriers and devoted to the production of forage for harvest primarily by grazing; - Grassland used for grazing LIVESTOCK; If someone leaves for greener pastures, or in British English pastures new, they leave their job, their home, or the situation they are in for something they think will be much better. Michael decided he wanted to move on to pastures new for financial reasons; To feed, esp; Land presently used for grazing or under cultivation to develop grazing; Grass land for cattle, horses, etc; Unirrigated and unplowed pasturelands; To feed on growing grass; to graze; Pasture is land with grass growing on it for farm animals to eat. The cows are out now, grazing in the pasture; Food; nourishment; Specifically: Grass growing for the food of cattle; the food of cattle taken by grazing; Watering Contents Links Contacts Search; animal food for browsing or grazing; A grass or legume feeding field for animals; land specifically cultivated to produce animal feed such as hay or alfalfa; {f} graze, feed on grass in an open meadow; to feed on growing grass; to supply grass as food for; as, the farmer pastures fifty oxen; the land will pasture forty cows; a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock; let feed in a field or pasture or meadow; there has been a lot of golf course construction in the U K in recent years, many have been built on redundant farm land At the worst level, no landscaping has been undertaken other than to build tees and greens - play takes place up and down the original fields with the hedge-rows still in place Drainage is often rudimentary These are poor places for golf At the other end of the scale, imaginative use has been made of the available land, landscaping carried out and good fairways built; If you put animals out to pasture, you move them out into the fields so they can eat the grass; pastureland
pasture land: land suitable for the grazing of animals (cows, sheep, etc.)
greener pasture: A better or more promising situation
A pasture: leasow
cow pasture: a pasture for cows
pastures: third-person singular of pasture
pastures: plural of pasture

pasture

Hyphenation

pas·ture

Turkish pronunciation

päsçır

Pronunciation

/ˈpasʧər/ /ˈpæsʧɜr/

Etymology

[ 'pas-ch&r ] (noun.) 14th century. From Anglo-Norman pastour, Anglo-Norman and Middle French pasture, from Latin pastura, from the stem of pascere (“to feed, graze”).