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pastures

pastures is the plural of pasture.

pastures is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pasture.

Meaning of pasture

Noun

pasture (countable and uncountable, plural pastures)

  1. Land, specifically, an open field, on which livestock is kept for feeding.
  2. 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
    Synonyms:
    leasow
  3. (obsolete) 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

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Phrases with pastures

Questions about pastures

What is pastures the plural of?
Pastures is the plural of pasture.

Words near pastures in the dictionary

  1. pastureland
  2. pasturelands
  3. pastureless
  4. pasturer
  5. pasturers
  6. pastures
  7. pastures new
  8. pastures out
  9. pasturest
  10. pastureth
  11. pasturing

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