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pas·ture

Audio Help [pas-cher, pahs-] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, -tured, -tur·ing.

–noun

1.	Also called pas·ture·land Audio Help [pas-cher-land, pahs-] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation. 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.

–verb (used with object)

4.	to feed (livestock) by putting them out to graze on pasture.

5.	(of land) to furnish with pasture.

6.	(of livestock) to graze upon.

–verb (used without object)

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

—Idiom

put out to pasture,

a.	to put in a pasture to graze.

b.	to dismiss, retire, or use sparingly as being past one's or its prime: Most of our older employees don't want to be put out to pasture.

[Origin: 1250–1300; ME < MF < LL pāstūra, equiv. to L pāst(us), ptp. of pāscere to feed, pasture (cf. pastor) + -ūra -ure

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—Related forms

pas·tur·al, adjective

pas·ture·less, adjective

pas·tur·er, noun

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pas·ture Audio Help (pās'chər) Pronunciation Key
n.

1. Grass or other vegetation eaten as food by grazing animals.
2. Ground on which such vegetation grows, especially that which is set aside for use by domestic grazing animals.
The feeding or grazing of animals.

v. pas·tured, pas·tur·ing, pas·tures

v. tr.

To herd (animals) into a pasture to graze.
To provide (animals) with pasturage. Used of land.
1. To graze on (land or vegetation).
2. To use (land) as pasture.

v. intr.
To graze in a pasture.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin pāstūra, from Latin pāstus, past participle of pāscere, to feed; see pā- in Indo-European roots.]

pas'tur·a·ble adj., pas'tur·er n.

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