Definitions for Pasture

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Pasture pas·ture

Spelling: [pas-cher, pahs-]

IPA: /ˈpæs tʃər, ˈpɑs-/

Pasture is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 356 anagrams from letters in Pasture (aeprstu).

Definitions for Pasture

noun

1. Also called pastureland [pas-cher-land, pahs-] /ˈpæs tʃərˌlænd, ˈpɑs-/ (Show IPA). an area covered with grass or other plants used or suitable for the grazing of livestock; grassland.
2. a specific area or piece of such ground.
3. grass or other plants for feeding livestock.
4. Rogier [French raw-zhee-ey] /French rɔ ʒiˈeɪ/ (Show IPA), or Roger [French raw-zhey] /French rɔˈʒeɪ/ (Show IPA), de la [French duh-la] /French də la/ (Show IPA), Weyden, Rogier van der.

Idioms

1. put out to pasture, to put in a pasture to graze. to dismiss, retire, or use sparingly as being past one's or its prime:

verb (used with object)

1. to feed (livestock) by putting them out to graze on pasture.
2. (of land) to furnish with pasture.
3. (of livestock) to graze upon.

verb (used without object)

1. (of livestock) to graze in a pasture.

Origin of Pasture

1250-1300; Middle English Middle French Late Latin pāstūra, equivalent to Latin pāst(us), past participle of pāscere to feed, pasture (cf. pastor) + -ūra Examples for Pasture

Down in the pasture at the end of the lane lived an old woodchuck.

The soldiers set up camp at the base of the far hill, near the pasture where the Laki children grazed cows.

The New Orleans Saints just played their season opener on a pasture of brand-new, emerald-green playing turf.

Pollock opens in 1957 in a rural Ohio pasture overlooking a “holler” called Knockemstiff.

After entering the pasture, the princess paused and looked around.

The Metropolitan Police said that sending retired horses out to pasture was a common practice.

He could run a mower, and clean a pasture of weeds in a day.

Butter and milk, the produce of their own pasture, were of course supplied.

Thus far, Congress has prevented the service from putting the Warthog out to pasture.

In the dewy mornings, she hop-skipped and jumped by his side into the pasture to bring in the cows.