pasture
102
1.4
- noun
- /ˈpæs.tʃɚ/
:
pasto
- A few dozen Angus dotted the middle pasture, as animated as glacial till.
- pasture for cattle
- pasture for livestock
- pasture grass
And then that night I drive to the pasture and park and sleep in the cab.
- And then that night I drive to the pasture and park and sleep in the cab.
- It was just constant undulation over fields and pastures and up and down monstrous hills.
- Let's take the policies for eastern Africa related to the pasture area that the Maasai occupied.
- So where the grass, the pasture, the grassland meets the jungle, live right there.
- That's what's actually harming the environment, not cows and sheep grazing in the pasture.
- All of the male calves, they are castrated, but they live out their lives on pasture at the farm.
- 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.
- The tribes people then used the resulting income to purchase cattle and cleared even more forest for pasture lands.
Examples
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Outside his study, cows were grazing in the pasture; he relished the view.
Academic text (1991) -
So I was just out in the pastures with Betsy, my new Mega cow.
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So, you know, this whole area was pasture just like this here.
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We're going to create pasture out of most of the land that we bought.
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Duty done, she started off across the pasture, accompanied by various animals.
Fiction book (1992) -
Another hundred head would only further overgraze the pasture, which we must leave soon anyway.
Fiction book (1990) -
The older people sang out that the southern pastures were now all around them.
Fiction book (1990) -
Tonight, for the first time, Luster goes out across the pasture to look in the neighbor's window.
Fiction book (1992) -
The most pressing problem for herders is access to sufficient pasture and water to sustain their herds.
Academic text (1999) -
The cows grazed peacefully in the pasture all afternoon.
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
60
3.2
A large flat area covered in tall grasses with very few trees
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
8
9.9
A field planted with grass for animals to eat or to cut for hay
3
2.5
Land with grass where animals like cows or sheep eat
2
3.7
Land covered with grass where cows or sheep eat
2
2.6
Land with grass where farm animals eat
2
6.6
Land with natural plants where animals like cattle graze
2
3.5
Land used for keeping animals like cows and horses
1
8.2
Land with grass that animals like cows or horses eat
1
3.1
Open land with grass and wildflowers where animals graze
1
8.1
An open field of grass where animals graze
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Etymology
Pasture comes from an old Latin verb pascere meaning 'to feed' and from the noun pastor meaning 'shepherd'. So a pasture is land where animals go to feed.