Definition of PASTURE

pasture

Plural: pastures

Noun

  • a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock
  • bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle
  • 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.
  • Food, nourishment.

Verb

Verb Forms: pastured, pasturing, pastures

  • To put animals out to graze in a field.
  • let feed in a field or pasture or meadow
  • feed as in a meadow or pasture
  • To move animals into a pasture.
  • To graze.
  • To feed, especially on growing grass; to supply grass as food for.

Examples

  • The farmer pastures fifty oxen.
  • The land will pasture forty cows.
  • The optimal strategy was to PASTURE his high-point tiles on bonus squares.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English pasture, pastoure, borrowed from Anglo-Norman pastour, Old French pasture, from Latin pāstūra, from the stem of pāscō (“to feed, graze”).

Synonyms

browse, crop, eatage, forage, grass, graze, grazing land, lea, ley, pasturage, pastureland, range, leasow

Scrabble Score: 9

pasture: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
pasture: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
pasture: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 11

pasture: valid Words With Friends Word