pasture
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Definition of pasture
6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- (countable, uncountable)Land, specifically, an open field, on which livestock is kept for feeding.
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noun
- (countable, uncountable)Land, specifically, an open field, on which livestock is kept for feeding.
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(countable, uncountable)Ground covered with grass or herbage, used or suitable for the grazing of livestock.
“He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.”
“So graze as you find pasture.”
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(countable, obsolete, uncountable)Food, nourishment.
“Ne euer is he wont on ought to feed, / But toades and frogs, his pasture poysonous […].”
verb
- (transitive)To move animals into a pasture.
- (intransitive)To graze.
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(transitive)To feed, especially on growing grass; to supply grass as food for.
“The farmer pastures fifty oxen.”
“The land will pasture forty cows.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- Proto-Indo-European *péh₂sti Proto-Italic *pāskōr Latin pāscor Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂? Latin -tūra Latin pastūra Anglo-Norman pastourbor. Middle English pasture English pasture Inherited from Middle English pasture, borrowed from Anglo-Norman pastour, from Latin pastūra, from pāscor + -tūra.
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