pasture

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle

   The cattle grazed in the lower pasture.

2. 2
   noun

   a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock

   The cattle grazed in the lower pasture.

3. 3
   verb

   feed as in a meadow or pasture

   The cattle grazed in the lower pasture.

4. 4
   verb

   let feed in a field or pasture or meadow

   The cattle grazed in the lower pasture.

Common collocations

• pasture land Noun + noun

From Middle English pasture, pastoure, borrowed from Anglo-Norman pastour, Old French pasture, from Latin pāstūra, from the stem of pāscō (“to feed, graze”).

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