pasture
pasture Lexical Profile
pasture Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A tract of land covered with grass and other low plants suitable for grazing animals, especially cattle or sheep.
"The dairy cows spent the warm afternoon grazing peacefully in the lush green pasture."
Herbage or growing plants used as food for grazing livestock.
"The prolonged summer drought left very little fresh pasture for the sheep."
• verb
To put livestock in a grassy field or meadow to graze.
"The rancher pastured his horses in the lower valley during the mild winter months."
To feed on growing grass and herbage (of livestock).
"Flocks of sheep pastured on the steep, rocky hillsides all summer."
• Rhymes for pasture
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed from Old French pasture, from Late Latin pastura ('a feeding, grazing'), derived from Latin pascere ('to feed, graze'), which shares the same Proto-Indo-European root as 'pastor' and 'repast'.
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