'Pasture' definitions:
Definition of 'pasture'
(from WordNet)
noun
A field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock [syn: pasture, pastureland, grazing land, lea, ley]
noun
Bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle [syn: eatage, forage, pasture, pasturage, grass]
verb
verb
Definition of 'Pasture'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Pasture'
From: GCIDE
- Pasture \Pas"ture\, v. i. To feed on growing grass; to graze. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Pasture'
From: GCIDE
- Pasture \Pas"ture\, n. [OF. pasture, F. p[^a]ture, L. pastura, fr. pascere, pastum, to pasture, to feed. See Pastor.]
- 1. Food; nourishment. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Toads and frogs his pasture poisonous. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Specifically: Grass growing for the food of cattle; the food of cattle taken by grazing. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Grass land for cattle, horses, etc.; pasturage. [1913 Webster]
- He maketh me to lie down in green pastures. --Ps. xxiii. 2. [1913 Webster]
- So graze as you find pasture. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'pasture'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- appetite,
- arable land,
- barley,
- barnyard,
- barton,
- batten upon,
- bird seed,
- board,
- bran,
- bread,
- browse,
- campo,
- cannibalism,
- carnivorism,
- carnivority,
- carnivorousness,
- cat food,
- cattle ranch,
- chewing,
- chicken farm,
- chicken feed,
- chop,
- collective farm,
- consumption,
- corn,
- cotton plantation,
- croft,
- crop,
- cropping,
- dairy farm,
- deglutition,
- demesne,
- demesne farm,
- devouring,
- devourment,
- dieting,
- dine,
- dining,
- dog food,
- dry farm,
- dude ranch,
- eatage,
- epulation,
- factory farm,
- fallow,
- farm,
- farmery,
- farmhold,
- farmland,
- farmplace,
- farmstead,
- farmyard,
- fatten on,
- fatten upon,
- feast on,
- feast upon,
- feasting,
- feed,
- feed on,
- feeding,
- fodder,
- forage,
- fruit farm,
- fur farm,
- gluttony,
- gobbling,
- grain,
- grain farm,
- grange,
- grass,
- grass veld,
- grassland,
- gratify,
- graze,
- grazing,
- hacienda,
- haugh,
- haughland,
- hay,
- herbivorism,
- herbivority,
- herbivorousness,
- homecroft,
- homefarm,
- homestead,
- hunger,
- ingestion,
- kibbutz,
- kolkhoz,
- lea,
- licking,
- live on,
- llano,
- location,
- mains,
- manducation,
- manor farm,
- mash,
- mastication,
- mead,
- meadow,
- meadow land,
- meal,
- meat,
- mess,
- messing,
- munching,
- nibbling,
- nutrition,
- oats,
- omnivorism,
- omnivorousness,
- omophagy,
- orchard,
- pampa,
- pampas,
- pantophagy,
- park,
- pasturage,
- pasture land,
- pasture on,
- pasturing,
- pecking,
- pen,
- pet food,
- plantation,
- poultry farm,
- prairie,
- prey on,
- provender,
- provision,
- ranch,
- rancheria,
- rancho,
- range,
- regale,
- regalement,
- relishing,
- rumination,
- satisfy,
- savanna,
- savoring,
- scratch,
- scratch feed,
- sheep farm,
- silage,
- slops,
- station,
- steading,
- steppe,
- steppeland,
- stock farm,
- straw,
- sustain,
- swale,
- swill,
- tasting,
- toft,
- truck farm,
- vega,
- vegetarianism,
- veld,
- wheat,
- wine and dine,
- wolfing