pasture

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
11
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈpɑːst͡ʃə/
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/ˈpɑːst͡ʃə/ · /ˈpæs-/ · [-tjə] · /ˈpæst͡ʃəɹ/ · /ˈpæʃ-/ · /-təɹ/

Definition of pasture

6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)Land, specifically, an open field, on which livestock is kept for feeding.
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noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)Land, specifically, an open field, on which livestock is kept for feeding.
  2. (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.”
  3. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Food, nourishment.
    “Ne euer is he wont on ought to feed, / But toades and frogs, his pasture poysonous […].”

verb

  1. (transitive)To move animals into a pasture.
  2. (intransitive)To graze.
  3. (transitive)To feed, especially on growing grass; to supply grass as food for.
    “The farmer pastures fifty oxen.”
    “The land will pasture forty cows.”

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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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