Definitions for pasture
ˈpæs tʃər, ˈpɑs-; -ˌlændpas·ture

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.0 / 2 votes

1. pasture, pastureland, grazing land, lea, leynoun

   a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock

2. eatage, forage, pasture, pasturage, grassverb

   bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle

3. crop, graze, pastureverb

   let feed in a field or pasture or meadow

4. crop, browse, graze, range, pastureverb

   feed as in a meadow or pasture

   "the herd was grazing"

WiktionaryRate this definition:2.0 / 1 vote

1. pasturenoun

   land on which cattle can be kept for feeding.

2. pasturenoun

   Ground covered with grass or herbage, used or suitable for the grazing of livestock.

3. pasturenoun

   Food, nourishment.

4. pastureverb

   To move animals into a pasture to graze.

5. pastureverb

   To graze.

6. Etymology: From pastour, and pasture, from pastura, from the stem of pascere.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Pasturenoun

   Etymology: pasture, French.

   1. Food; the act of feeding.

   Unto the conservation is required a solid pasture, and a food congenerous unto nature. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours.

   2. Ground on which cattle feed.

   A careless herd,
   Full of the pasture, jumps along by him,
   And never stays. William Shakespeare, As you like it.

   When there was not room for their herds to feed together, they, by consent, separated and enlarged their pasture where it best liked them. John Locke.

   The new tribes look abroad
   On nature’s common, far as they can see
   Or wing, their range and pasture. James Thomson, Spring.

   3. Human culture; education.

   From the first pastures of our infant age,
   To elder cares and man’s severer page
   We lash the pupil. Dryden.

2. To Pastureverb

   To place in a pasture.

   Etymology: from the noun.

3. To Pastureverb

   To graze on the ground.

   Etymology: from the noun

   The cattle in the fields and meadows green
   Those rare and solitary; these in flocks
   Pasturing at once, and in broad herds upsprung. John Milton.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Pasture

   Pasture (from the Latin pastus, past participle of pascere, "to feed") is land used for grazing. Pasture lands in the narrow sense are enclosed tracts of farmland, grazed by domesticated livestock, such as horses, cattle, sheep, or swine. The vegetation of tended pasture, forage, consists mainly of grasses, with an interspersion of legumes and other forbs (non-grass herbaceous plants). Pasture is typically grazed throughout the summer, in contrast to meadow which is ungrazed or used for grazing only after being mown to make hay for animal fodder. Pasture in a wider sense additionally includes rangelands, other unenclosed pastoral systems, and land types used by wild animals for grazing or browsing. Pasture lands in the narrow sense are distinguished from rangelands by being managed through more intensive agricultural practices of seeding, irrigation, and the use of fertilizers, while rangelands grow primarily native vegetation, managed with extensive practices like controlled burning and regulated intensity of grazing. Soil type, minimum annual temperature, and rainfall are important factors in pasture management. Sheepwalk is an area of grassland where sheep can roam freely. The productivity of sheepwalk is measured by the number of sheep per area. This is dependent, among other things, on the underlying rock. Sheepwalk is also the name of townlands in County Roscommon, Ireland, and County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. Unlike factory farming, which entails in its most intensive form entirely trough-feeding, managed or unmanaged pasture is the main food source for ruminants. Pasture feeding dominates livestock farming where the land makes crop sowing or harvesting (or both) difficult, such as in arid or mountainous regions, where types of camel, goat, antelope, yak and other ruminants live which are well suited to the more hostile terrain and very rarely factory-farmed. In more humid regions, pasture grazing is managed across a large global area for free range and organic farming. Certain types of pasture suit the diet, evolution and metabolism of particular animals, and their fertilising and tending of the land may over generations result in the pasture combined with the ruminants in question being integral to a particular ecosystem.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. pasture

   Pasture is a piece of land covered with grass or other vegetation that is used for grazing animals such as cattle, horses, and sheep. It is typically an enclosed area in a farm or ranch, and often includes various types of nutritious plants that are beneficial for the animals' health and growth.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:2.0 / 1 vote

1. Pasturenoun

   food; nourishment

2. Pasturenoun

   specifically: Grass growing for the food of cattle; the food of cattle taken by grazing

3. Pasturenoun

   grass land for cattle, horses, etc.; pasturage

4. Pastureverb

   to feed, esp. to feed on growing grass; to supply grass as food for; as, the farmer pastures fifty oxen; the land will pasture forty cows

5. Pastureverb

   to feed on growing grass; to graze

6. Etymology: [OF. pasture, F. pture, L. pastura, fr. pascere, pastum, to pasture, to feed. See Pastor.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Pasture

   Pasture is land used for grazing. Pasture lands in the narrow sense are enclosed tracts of farmland, grazed by domesticated livestock, such as horses, cattle, sheep or swine. The vegetation of tended pasture, forage, consists mainly of grasses, with an interspersion of legumes and other forbs. Pasture is typically grazed throughout the summer, in contrast to meadow which is used for grazing only after being mown to make hay for winter fodder. Pasture in a wider sense additionally includes rangelands, other unenclosed pastoral systems and land types used by wild animals for grazing or browsing. Pasture lands in the narrow sense are distinguished from rangelands by being managed through more intensive agricultural practices of seeding, irrigation, and the use of fertilizers, while rangelands grow primarily native vegetation, managed with extensive practices like controlled burning and regulated intensity of grazing. Soil type, minimum annual temperature, and rainfall are important factors in pasture management. Prior to the advent of factory farming with its use of "zero-grazing" feeding techniques, pasture was the primary source of food for grazing animals such as cattle and horses. It is still used extensively, particularly in arid regions where pasture land is unsuitable for any other agricultural production. In more humid regions, pasture grazing is exploited extensively for free range and organic farming. It is an important biotic resource.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Pasture

   past′ūr, n. grass for grazing: ground covered with grass for grazing.—v.t. to feed on pasture: to supply with grass.—v.i. to feed on pasture: to graze.—adj. Past′ūrable, that can be pastured: fit for pasture.—ns. Past′ūrage, the business of feeding or grazing cattle: pasture-land: grass for feeding; Past′ūre-land, land appropriated to pasture.—adj. Past′ūreless, destitute of pasture. [O. Fr. pasture (Fr. pâture)—L. pastura—pascĕre, pastum, to feed.]

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Anagrams for pasture »

1. uprates

2. uptears

3. pasteur

4. upstare

How to pronounce pasture?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say pasture in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of pasture in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of pasture in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of pasture in a Sentence

1. Ron DeSantis:

   I know that Charlie Crist is itching to talk about 2024 and Joe Biden, but I just want to make things very, very clear : The only worn-out old donkey I ’m looking to put out to pasture is Charlie Crist.

2. Charity Kokwai:

   Decades ago, it was men's role to search for pasture for the livestock but of late women are looking after livestock.

3. Ndiba Ngolicha:

   It has only rained for two days within the year but we have not lost a single cow to drought or lack of pasture. Our biggest challenge remains livestock diseases.

4. Kahlil Gibran, Essay on Robert Frost, quoted in N. Y.. Times: Obit-Editorial, April 1982:

   Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.

5. Lori Gregory:

   Rojo just stood out from all the other llamas that were there, all the other llamas were out playing with their buddies in the pasture, and Rojo was only four months at the time, and he was just following the owner around her yard when she was doing chores.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=pasture
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Pasture
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=pasture
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasture
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pasture
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=pasture
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=pasture
9. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=pasture