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pasturing

pasturing is the present participle and gerund of pasture.

Noun

pasturing (countable and uncountable, plural pasturings)

  1. The process of putting an animal out to pasture.
  2. Land used as pasture.

Meaning of pasture

Verb

pasture (third-person singular simple present pastures, present participle pasturing, simple past and past participle pastured)

  1. (transitive) To move animals into a pasture.
  2. (intransitive) To graze.
  3. (transitive) To feed, especially on growing grass; to supply grass as food for.
    • The farmer pastures fifty oxen.

See all 6 meanings of pasture

Forms of pasturing

pluralpasturings

Phrases with pasturing

Questions about pasturing

What does pasturing mean?
Pasturing means the process of putting an animal out to pasture.
What is pasturing the present participle and gerund of?
Pasturing is the present participle and gerund of pasture.
What part of speech is pasturing?
Pasturing is a noun.
What is the plural of pasturing?
The plural of pasturing is pasturings.

Words near pasturing in the dictionary

  1. pastures
  2. pastures new
  3. pastures out
  4. pasturest
  5. pastureth
  6. pasturing
  7. pasturing out
  8. pasturings
  9. pastward
  10. pastwards
  11. pasty

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pasturing (page history and authors); pasture (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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