noun / verb
pasture
PAS-chur/ˈpæstʃər/
Grassy land used for feeding grazing animals.
Two cows graze in a pasture beside a short wooden fence.
Etymology
Latin pastura named feeding or grazing. The meaning extended from that activity to the grass animals ate and the land that supplied it, giving the modern sense of grazing land.
In context
it was also grazing land pasture land again for the benefit of the entire community
More examples
- The horses spend their mornings in the pasture.
- Heavy rain leaves the lower pastures too muddy for cattle.
- We pasture our sheep near the barn each spring.
Forms
pasture · pastures · pastured · pasturing
graze verb — Feed on grass or other growing plants.