pas·ture

[pas-cher, pahs-] noun, verb, pas·tured, pas·tur·ing.
noun
1.
Also called pas·ture·land [pas-cher-land, pahs-] . 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.
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verb (used without object)
7.
(of livestock) to graze in a pasture.
8.
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; Middle English < Middle French < Late Latin pāstūra, equivalent to Latin pāst(us), past participle of pāscere to feed, pasture (cf. pastor) + -ūra -ure

pas·tur·al, adjective
pas·ture·less, adjective
pas·tur·er, noun
un·pas·tured, adjective
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Pas·ture

[French pah-tyr]
noun
Ro·gi·er [French raw-zhee-ey] , or Ro·ger [French raw-zhey] , de la [French duh-la] , Weyden, Rogier van der.
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pasture (ˈpɑːstʃə) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
1.  land covered with grass or herbage and grazed by or suitable for grazing by livestock
2.  a specific tract of such land
3.  the grass or herbage growing on it
 
vb
4.  (tr) to cause (livestock) to graze or (of livestock) to graze (a pasture)
 
[C13: via Old French from Late Latin pāstūra, from pascere to feed]

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pasture
c.1300, from O.Fr. pasture "grass eaten by cattle," from L.L. pastura "a feeding, grazing," from L. pastus, pp. of pascere "to feed, graze" (see pastor).
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pasture

see put out to grass (pasture).

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