pasture
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Anglo-Norman pastour, Anglo-Norman and Middle French pasture, from Latin pastura, from the stem of pascere (“to feed, graze”).
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
pasture (plural pastures)
- land on which cattle can be kept for feeding.
- Ground covered with grass or herbage, used or suitable for the grazing of livestock.
- (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 [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.x:
Translations [edit]
land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
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Verb [edit]
pasture (third-person singular simple present pastures, present participle pasturing, simple past and past participle pastured)
- (transitive) To move animals into a pasture to graze.
- (intransitive) To graze.
- (transitive) To feed, especially on growing grass; to supply grass as food for.
- The farmer pastures fifty oxen; the land will pasture forty cows.
Translations [edit]
to herd animals into a pasture
graze — see graze
Anagrams [edit]
Italian [edit]
Noun [edit]
pasture f
- Plural form of pastura
Anagrams [edit]
Latin [edit]
Participle [edit]
pastūre
- vocative masculine singular of pastūrus
Old French [edit]
Noun [edit]
pasture f (oblique plural pastures, nominative singular pasture, nominative plural pastures)
Descendants [edit]
- French: pâture
