Definition of Pasture

1. Verb. Let feed in a field or pasture or meadow. "They pasture the animals"

Exact synonyms: Crop, Graze
Category relationships: Animal, Animate Being, Beast, Brute, Creature, Fauna
Generic synonyms: Feed, Give
Specialized synonyms: Grass, Drift
Related verbs: Browse, Crop, Graze, Range
Derivative terms: Graze, Grazier, Grazing, Pasturage

2. Noun. A field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock.
Exact synonyms: Grazing Land, Lea, Ley, Pastureland
Specialized synonyms: Common Land, Commons, Cow Pasture
Generic synonyms: Grassland
Group relationships: Country, Rural Area

3. Verb. Feed as in a meadow or pasture. "The animals pasture"; "The herd was grazing"
Exact synonyms: Browse, Crop, Graze, Range
Generic synonyms: Eat, Feed
Related verbs: Range, Crop, Graze
Derivative terms: Browse, Graze, Grazing, Pasturage, Range

4. Noun. Bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle.
Exact synonyms: Eatage, Forage, Grass, Pasturage
Generic synonyms: Fodder
Derivative terms: Forage

Definition of Pasture

1. n. Food; nourishment.

2. v. t. To feed, esp. to feed on growing grass; to supply grass as food for; as, the farmer pastures fifty oxen; the land will pasture forty cows.

3. v. i. To feed on growing grass; to graze.

Definition of Pasture

1. Noun. land on which cattle can be kept for feeding. ¹

2. Noun. Ground covered with grass or herbage, used or suitable for the grazing of livestock. ¹

3. Noun. (obsolete) Food, nourishment. ¹

4. Verb. (transitive) To move animals into a pasture to graze. ¹

5. Verb. (intransitive) To graze. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pasture

1. to put in a pasture (a grazing area) [v -TURED, -TURING, -TURES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pasture

pastry bag
pastry cart
pastry cook
pastry dough
pastry shop
pastryless
pastrylike
pastrymaker
pastrymakers
pastrymaking
pasts
pasturable
pasturage
pasturages
pastural
pasture (current term)
pasture brake
pastured
pastureland
pasturelands
pastureless
pasturer
pasturers
pastures
pasturing
pasturized milk
pastward
pastwards
pasty
pat-on-the-back

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