pasture

Meanings

Noun

• 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

• To move animals into a pasture.
• To graze.
• To feed, especially on growing grass; to supply grass as food for.

Related

Similar words

• leasow

Origin

• From Middle English pasture, pastoure, borrowed from Anglo-Norman pastour, Old French pasture, from Latin pastūra, from the stem of pascere.