livestock
/ˈlaɪvstɒk/US/ˈlaɪvstɑk/
livestock noun: farm animals; animals domesticated for cultivation.
Noun
livestock (usually uncountable, plural livestocks)
- Farm animals; animals domesticated for cultivation.
- Meronym: stock animal
- The livestock were poisoned by what they grazed on.
- Synonyms:
- stock[Appendix:Glossary
livestock meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
livestock in Hindi
- farm animals
- पशुधन paśudhan
livestock in Tamil
- கால்நடை
livestock in Marathi
- पशुधना, पशुधनाची
livestock in Urdu
- مویشی جانور
More languagesFewer languages
- livestock in Bengali
- পশুসম্পত্তি
- livestock in Malayalam
- കന്നുകാലി kannukāli
- livestock in Kannada
- ದನ dana
- livestock in Punjabi
- ਪਸ਼ੂਧਨ
- livestock in Gujarati
- પશુધન paśudhan
- livestock in Tagalog
- palahayupan
- livestock in Arabic
- مَوَاشٍ mawāšin, أَنْعَام ʔanʕām, دَوَاجِن dawājin
- livestock in Malay
- ternakan, haiwan ternakan
- livestock in Thai
- ปศุสัตว์ bpà-sù-sàt
- livestock in Vietnamese
- thú nuôi, gia súc
Examples of livestock in a sentence
- Livestock is bought and sold at an auction market.
- Much livestock was slaughtered due to high feed prices.
- In the West there are local areas with too many livestock.
- Women herded small livestocks such as goats and sheep.
- These spearings were not related to livestock killed but to young boys trying to prove their bravery.2011, Cynthia J. Moss, Harvey Croze, Phyllis C. Lee, The Amboseli Elephants: A Long-Term Perspective on a Long-Lived Mammal, page 297:
Synonyms of livestock
- stock[Appendix:Glossary
Antonyms
Forms of livestock
| plural | livestocks |
|---|---|
| alternative form (dated) | live stock |
| alternative form (dated) | live-stock |
Origin of livestock
From live + stock.
Words formed from livestock
Phrases with livestock
Questions about livestock
- What does livestock mean?
- Livestock means farm animals; animals domesticated for cultivation.
- What is livestock in Hindi?
- Livestock in Hindi is पशुधन (paśudhan). See Livestock meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use livestock in a sentence?
- Livestock is bought and sold at an auction market.
- What part of speech is livestock?
- Livestock is a noun.
- How do you pronounce livestock?
- Livestock is pronounced /ˈlaɪvstɒk/ (UK).
- What is the plural of livestock?
- The plural of livestock is livestocks.
Words near livestock in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: livestock (page history and authors); livestock (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); livestock (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); livestock (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); livestock (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); livestock (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); પશુધન (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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