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pasture

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As a noun, pasture means land, specifically, an open field, on which livestock is kept for feeding. As a verb, it means move animals into a pasture.

Meanings of pasture

9 meanings

noun

  1. Land, specifically, an open field, on which livestock is kept for feeding.

  2. Ground covered with grass or herbage, used or suitable for the grazing of livestock.

  3. Bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattlefood

    Similar: eatage, forage, pasturage, grass
Older and rare meanings (1)
  1. obsoleteFood, nourishment.

verb

  1. To move animals into a pasture.

  2. To graze.

  3. To feed, especially on growing grass; to supply grass as food for.

    “The farmer pastures fifty oxen.”

    “The land will pasture forty cows.”

  4. Let feed in a field or pasture or meadow

    Similar: crop, graze
  5. Feed as in a meadow or pasture

    “the herd was grazing”

    Similar: crop, browse, graze, range

Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).

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noun: a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for gr…
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noun: bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing hors…
verb: let feed in a field or pasture or meadow
verb: feed as in a meadow or pasture

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