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.

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Simplified etymology

Pasture came into Middle English through Old French from late Latin pastura ‘grazing’, derived from the Latin verb pascere ‘to graze’.

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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