cow pasture
3
2.0
- noun
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pasto para vacas
- The cows grazed peacefully in the large cow pasture behind the farmhouse.
- acres of cow pasture
- houses near a cow pasture
- old cow pasture
Like there's like a, a, a walkway that they've built over the cow pasture to kind of keep you from like walking through cow crap and mud.
- Like there's like a, a, a walkway that they've built over the cow pasture to kind of keep you from like walking through cow crap and mud.
- And that is the story we've told several times about, you know, we would go to these pastures, cow pastures, and we would run around, chase cows.
Examples
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Five years ago, Texas Motor Speedway on the northern edge of Fort Worth was just a 1,500-acre cow pasture.
Academic text (2000) -
One day Elizabeth and I were walking home from the port where we'd been sent to buy fish and saw Goody Johnson sitting on the stone fence next to the cow pasture.
Fiction book (1996) -
I think it ran into the cow pasture!
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The largest forest in the world reduced to a cow pasture.
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You want to spend 24 hours a day sitting in a truck in a cow pasture?
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- Well, from the looks of things, it's gonna be back roads and cow pastures for quite a while yet.
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So our favorite hobby was to go across the golf course, across the stream into the cow pasture and chase the cows.
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There are acres of mowed grass and a cow pasture that spread out behind the barn and up the hill.
Fiction book (2000) -
The cow pasture by the creek was turning pale green with new shoots rising through the gray stubble of the previous year.
Fiction book (1997) -
Paul lobbed his pack over the barbed wire fence of the Hendersons' cow pasture and ducked through the middle strands.
Fiction book (2002)
Synonyms
742
1.0
An area of open land used for farming or grazing
85
1.0
A field of grass and wildflowers in the countryside
69
3.5
A large open area of grass where animals graze
20
2.7
An open area covered mainly with grass where animals live or graze
8
3.4
A small enclosed field where animals such as horses graze or exercise
3
2.5
Land with grass where animals like cows or sheep eat
2
2.6
Land with grass where farm animals eat
2
3.7
Land covered with grass where cows or sheep eat
2
3.5
Land used for keeping animals like cows and horses
1
3.1
Open land with grass and wildflowers where animals graze
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Morphology
The meaning 'a field where cows graze' is directly and compositionally derived from 'cow' (an adult bovine) + 'pasture' (land for grazing). This is a literal, cross-linguistically common noun phrase and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Cow pasture is a simple picture: a cow standing in a pasture, a grassy field where animals 'graze'. That's why it means 'a field where cows are kept for grazing'.