Pasture

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈpɑːstjÉ™/, /ˈpɑːstʃə/

Origin

From Anglo-Norman pastour, Anglo-Norman and Middle French pasture, from Latin pastura, from the stem of pascere ("to feed, graze").

Full definition of pasture

Noun

1. Land on which cattle can be kept for feeding.
2. Ground covered with grass or herbage, used or suitable for the grazing of livestock.
• Bible, Psalms xxiii. 2He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.
• ShakespeareSo graze as you find pasture.
3. (obsolete) Food, nourishment.
• 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.x:Ne euer is he wont on ought to feed,
  But toades and frogs, his pasture poysonous ....

Derived terms

• pasture rose
• pasture thistle

Verb

1. (transitive) To move animals into a pasture to graze.
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.

Anagrams

• uprates, uptears