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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
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
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
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.
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]