Advertisement
Advertisement
pasture
1[ pas-cher, pahs- ]
noun
- Also called 貹·ٳܰ·Ի [pas, -cher-land, pahs, -]. an area covered with grass or other plants used or suitable for the grazing of livestock; grassland.
- a specific area or piece of such ground.
- grass or other plants for feeding livestock.
verb (used with object)
- to feed (livestock) by putting them out to graze on pasture.
- (of land) to furnish with pasture.
- (of livestock) to graze upon.
verb (used without object)
- (of livestock) to graze in a pasture.
Pasture
2[ French pah-tyr ]
noun
- ·· [r, aw-zhee-, ey] or Ro·ger [r, aw-, zhey] de la [d, uh, -l, a]. Weyden, Rogier van der.
pasture
/ ˈɑːʃə /
noun
- land covered with grass or herbage and grazed by or suitable for grazing by livestock
- a specific tract of such land
- the grass or herbage growing on it
verb
- tr to cause (livestock) to graze or (of livestock) to graze (a pasture)
Other 51Թ Forms
- 貹tܰ· adjective
- 貹tܰ· adjective
- 貹tܰ· noun
- ܲ·貹tܰ adjective
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of pasture1
Idioms and Phrases
- put out to pasture,
- to put in a pasture to graze.
- to dismiss, retire, or use sparingly as being past one's or its prime:
Most of our older employees don't want to be put out to pasture.
More idioms and phrases containing pasture
see put out to grass (pasture) .Example Sentences
There are greener pastures elsewhere where he’ll be better coached and properly utilized in the low post.
Like his father and grandfather before him, he watched over his cows as the fog rolled in and out over pastures that stretched from the hills to the sea.
His beef-raising operation involves rotating cattle through nine enclosed pastures, from birth to market.
But herds in Morocco have shrunk by 38% in a decade due to dry pastures, according to official data.
His West Virginia home bordered a cattle farm, the backyard and back pasture separated by a fence of loosely coiled barbed wire.
Advertisement
Related 51Թs
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Browse