pasture
Syllables: pas·tureUK/ˈpɑːst͡ʃə//ˈpæst͡ʃəɹ/
pasture noun: land, specifically, an open field, on which livestock is kept for feeding.
Noun
pasture (countable and uncountable, plural pastures)
- Land, specifically, an open field, on which livestock is kept for feeding.
- Ground covered with grass or herbage, used or suitable for the grazing of livestock.
- He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalm 23:2
- So graze as you find pasture.1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
- Synonyms:
- leasow
- Food, nourishment.
- Ne euer is he wont on ought to feed, / But toades and frogs, his pasture poysonous […].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
- It was reserved for Christians to torture bread, the staff of life, bread for which children in whole districts wail, bread, the gift of pasture to the poor, bread, for want of which thousands of our fellow beings annually perish by famine; it was reserved for Christians to torture the material of...1831 July 15, “Of the Blood”, in Western Journal of Health, volume 4, number 1, L. B. Lincoln, page 38
Verb
pasture (third-person singular simple present pastures, present participle pasturing, simple past and past participle pastured)
- To move animals into a pasture.
- To graze.
- To feed, especially on growing grass; to supply grass as food for.
- The farmer pastures fifty oxen.
- The land will pasture forty cows.
pasture meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
pasture in Hindi
- land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
- चरागाह carāgāh, चरणभूमि caraṇbhūmi
pasture in Tamil
- மேய்ச்சல் நிலம், மேய்ச்சல் புல்வெளி, மந்தைவெளி
pasture in Urdu
- land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
- چَرا گاہ carā gāh, چَراگاہ carāgāh
pasture in Bengali
- land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
- চারণভূমি caronbhumi
More languagesFewer languages
- pasture in Telugu
- పొలము polamu
- pasture in Malayalam
- പുലം pulaṁ
- pasture in Kannada
- ಗೋಮಾಳ gōmāḷa
- pasture in Gujarati
- ચરો caro, ચરણ caraṇ
- pasture in Odia
- ଗୋଠ goṭha
- pasture in Sanskrit
- गव्य gavyá, गव्यूति gávyūti, यवस yávasa, दान dā́na
- pasture in Pashto
- څړ caṛ, څړځاي caṛjāy
- pasture in Arabic
- مَرْعًى marʕan, مَسْرَح masraḥ
- pasture in Malay
- padang rumput
- pasture in Indonesian
- padang rumput
- pasture in Thai
- ทุ่งหญ้า tûng-yâa, ทุ่งเลี้ยงสัตว์ tûng-líiang-sàt, ทุ่งหญ้าเลี้ยงสัตว์ tûng-yâa-líiang-sàt
- pasture in Vietnamese
- bãi chăn, đồng cỏ
- pasture in Myanmar
- စားကျက် ca:kyak
Examples of pasture in a sentence
- If we fence in that field, it will be a good pasture for a horse.
- A reclusive dowager owned the pastures across the river, and her farmhands ran beef cattle on them.
- He worked there for two years before leaving for greener pastures.
Synonyms of pasture
Forms of pasture
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | pastures |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | pastures |
| present participle | pasturing |
| past participle | pastured |
| past | pastured |
Origin of pasture
Inherited from Middle English pasture, borrowed from Anglo-Norman pastour, from Latin pastūra, from pāscor + -tūra.
Words formed from pasture
Phrases with pasture
Questions about pasture
- What does pasture mean?
- Pasture means land, specifically, an open field, on which livestock is kept for feeding.
- What is pasture in Hindi?
- Pasture in Hindi is चरागाह (carāgāh), चरणभूमि (caraṇbhūmi). See Pasture meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is pasture?
- Pasture can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce pasture?
- Pasture is pronounced /ˈpɑːst͡ʃə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of pasture?
- The plural of pasture is pastures.
Words near pasture in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: pasture (page history and authors); pasture (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); పొలము (Telugu) (page history and authors); പുലം (Malayalam) (page history and authors); ಗೋಮಾಳ (Kannada) (page history and authors); ચરણ (Gujarati) (page history and authors); ଗୋଠ (Odia) (page history and authors); गव्य (Sanskrit) (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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