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pasture

noun · verb · 10 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpɑːst͡ʃə/
  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpæs-/
  • Received-Pronunciation: [-tjə]
  • General-American: /ˈpæst͡ʃəɹ/
  • General-American: /ˈpæʃ-/
  • General-American, dialectal: /-təɹ/
  • General-American: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with (RP) -ɑːstʃə
  • rhymes with -ɑːstjə
  • rhymes with (GA) -æstʃəɹ
  • rhymes with (US, dialectal) -æstə(ɹ)
  • CMU ARPABET: P AE1 S CH ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

Land, specifically, an open field, on which livestock is kept for feeding.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: leasow

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

Food, nourishment.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

verb

Meaning 4

To move animals into a pasture.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

verb

Meaning 5

To graze.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

verb

Meaning 6

To feed, especially on growing grass; to supply grass as food for.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Examples

  • The farmer pastures fifty oxen.
  • The land will pasture forty cows.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

noun

Meaning 7

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

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: eatage, forage, pasturage, grass

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: fodder

8

noun

Meaning 8

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

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: pastureland, grazing land, lea, ley

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: grassland

Narrower terms: commons, common land, cow pasture

9

verb

Meaning 9

feed as in a meadow or pasture

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • the herd was grazing

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: crop, browse, graze, range

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: feed, eat

10

verb

Meaning 10

let feed in a field or pasture or meadow

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: crop, graze

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: feed, give

Narrower terms: grass, drift

History

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *peh2- Proto-Indo-European *péh2sti Proto-Italic *pāskōr Latin pāscor Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh2? Latin -tūra Latin pastūra Anglo-Norman pastourbor. Middle English pasture English pasture Inherited from Middle English pasture, borrowed from Anglo-Norman pastour, from Latin pastūra, from pāscor + -tūra.

Across languages

Translations

169 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: weiveld — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Albanian: luadh — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Albanian: shtrungë — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Arabic: مَرْعًى (marʕan) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Arabic: مَسْرَح (masraḥ) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Armenian: արոտ (arot) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Armenian: արոտավայր (arotavayr) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Aromanian: pãshuni — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Azerbaijani: otlaq — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Azerbaijani: örüş — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Bashkir: көтөүлек (kötöwlek) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Belarusian: вы́пас (výpas) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Belarusian: вы́гул (výhul) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Belarusian: вы́ган (výhan) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Belarusian: па́ша (páša) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Bengali: চারণভূমি (caronbhumi) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Bulgarian: па́сище (pásište) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Bulgarian: па́сбище (pásbište) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Bulgarian: па́ша (páša) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Burmese: စားကျက် (ca:kyak) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Catalan: prat — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Catalan: pastura — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Cherokee: ᏠᎨᏏ (tlogesi) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Chinese Cantonese: 牧場 /牧场 (muk6 coeng4) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Chinese Mandarin: 牧場 /牧场 (mùchǎng) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Chinese Mandarin: 牧草地 (mùcǎodì) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Cornish: peurva — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Czech: pastvina — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Danish: græsgang — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Dutch: weiland — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Dutch: weide — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Estonian: karjamaa — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Finnish: laidun — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Finnish: laidunmaa — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • French: pâture — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • French: pâturage — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • French: pré — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • French: prairie — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Old French: pasture — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Friulian: pasture — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Friulian: passon — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Friulian: pasc — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Galician: pasto — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Galician: campo — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Galician: prado — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Georgian: საძოვარი (saʒovari) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • German: Weide — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Old High German: winne — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Greek: βοσκότοπος (voskótopos) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Greek: λιβάδι (livádi) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Ancient Greek: βοτάνη (botánē) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Ancient Greek: νομός (nomós) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Hindi: चरागाह (carāgāh) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Hindi: चरणभूमि (caraṇbhūmi) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Hungarian: legelő — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Icelandic: beitiland — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Indonesian: padang rumput — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Irish: féarach — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Irish: tuar — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Irish: buaile — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Irish: cuibhreann — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Italian: pastura — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Italian: pascolo — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Japanese: 牧草地 (bokusōchi) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Japanese: 牧草 (bokusō) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Kazakh: жайылым (jaiylym) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Khmer: តិណភូមិ (tenaʼphuum) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Khmer: វាលស្មៅ (viəl smaw) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Korean: 목장 (mokjang) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Korean: 목초지 (mokchoji) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Central Kurdish: لەوەڕگا (lewerrga) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Northern Kurdish: çêregeh — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Kyrgyz: жайлоо (jayloo) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Kyrgyz: жайыт (jayıt) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Lao: ເຖື່ອນຫຍ້າ (thư̄an nyā) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Lao: ໂຄຈະຣະພູມ (khō cha ra phūm) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Lao: ທົ່ງຫຍ້າລ້ຽງສັດ (thong nyā līang sat) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Latin: pāstus — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Latin: pāscuum — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Latin: pābulātiō — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Latvian: ganības — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Lithuanian: ganyklà — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Macedonian: пасиште (pasište) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Malay: padang rumput — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Manchu: ᠨᡠᡴᡨᡝ (nukte) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Mongolian: бэлчээр (belčeer) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Mongolian: ᠪᠡᠯᠴᠢᠭᠡᠷ (belčiger) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Norman: pâtuthe — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Norwegian Bokmål: beite — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Norwegian Bokmål: beitemark — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: beite — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: beitemark — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Occitan: pastura — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Old English: lǣs — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Pashto: څړ (caṛ) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Pashto: څړځاي (caṛjāy) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Iranian Persian: چَراگاه (čarâgâh) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Iranian Persian: مَسْرَح (masrah) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Plautdietsch: Weid — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Plautdietsch: Jräs — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Polabian: postvaistĕ — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Polish: pastwisko — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Portuguese: pasto — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Portuguese: pastadouro — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Portuguese: pastadoiro — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Romanian: pășune — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Romanian: imaș — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Russian: па́стбище (pástbišče) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Russian: вы́пас (výpas) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Russian: вы́гон (výgon) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Serbo-Croatian: па̏шња̄к — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Serbo-Croatian: pȁšnjāk — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Sicilian: pastura — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Slovak: pastvina — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Slovak: pasienok — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Slovene: pašnik — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Spanish: pasto — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Spanish: pradera — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Spanish: dehesa — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Spanish: prado — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Spanish: acampo — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Spanish: pastizal — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Spanish: alijar — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Spanish: alijares — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Swedish: betesmark — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Swedish: bete — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Swedish: beteshage — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Tajik: чарогоҳ (čarogoh) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Tatar: көтүлек (kötülek) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Thai: ทุ่งหญ้า (tûng-yâa) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Thai: ทุ่งเลี้ยงสัตว์ (tûng-líiang-sàt) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Thai: ทุ่งหญ้าเลี้ยงสัตว์ (tûng-yâa-líiang-sàt) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Turkish: otlak — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Turkish: mera — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Ottoman Turkish: اوتلاق (otlak) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Ottoman Turkish: مرتع (mertaʿ) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Turkmen: öri — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Ukrainian: ви́пас (výpas) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Ukrainian: ви́гін (výhin) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Ukrainian: пасови́ще (pasovýšče) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Ukrainian: пасови́сько (pasovýsʹko) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Urdu: چَرا گاہ (carā gāh) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Urdu: چَراگاہ (carāgāh) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Uyghur: ئوتلاق (otlaq) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Uzbek: yaylov — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Uzbek: oʻtloq — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Venetan: pastura — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Vietnamese: bãi chăn — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Vietnamese: đồng cỏ — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Welsh: porfa — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Yakut: мэччирэҥ (meččireŋ) — land on which cattle can be kept for feeding
  • Afrikaans: wei — to herd animals into a pasture
  • Armenian: արածեցնել (aracecʻnel) — to herd animals into a pasture
  • Bulgarian: паса (pasa) — to herd animals into a pasture
  • Catalan: pasturar — to herd animals into a pasture
  • Finnish: laiduntaa — to herd animals into a pasture
  • German: weiden — to herd animals into a pasture
  • Greek: βόσκω (vósko) — to herd animals into a pasture
  • Hungarian: legeltet — to herd animals into a pasture
  • Italian: pascolare — to herd animals into a pasture
  • Japanese: 放牧する (hōboku suru) — to herd animals into a pasture
  • Old English: lǣswian — to herd animals into a pasture
  • Polish: paść — to herd animals into a pasture
  • Quechua: michiy — to herd animals into a pasture
  • Romanian: păstori — to herd animals into a pasture
  • Romanian: pășuna — to herd animals into a pasture
  • Romanian: paște — to herd animals into a pasture
  • Russian: пасти́ (pastí) — to herd animals into a pasture
  • Spanish: pastar — to herd animals into a pasture
Real reading context

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