What is another word for pasture?

Pronunciation: [pˈast͡ʃə] (IPA)

Pasture is a vast expanse of land used for grazing livestock such as cows, sheep, and horses. The word has several synonyms that describe the same concept. These synonyms include prairie, meadow, range, grazing land, grassland, paddock, and field. All of these words have a common thread of indicating an area of land that is primarily used for animal grazing. Some synonyms have a slightly different connotation, such as "meadow" which often refers to a smaller, more manicured area of pasture. Regardless of the specific synonym used, all point to an open area of land utilized for feeding livestock and maintaining their health.

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  • Forward Entailment

    • Adjective
      grassland.
    • Proper noun, singular
      grassland.
    • Noun, singular or mass
      grassland.
  • Reverse Entailment

    • Noun, singular or mass
      grass.
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What are the hypernyms for Pasture?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
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What are the hyponyms for Pasture?

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Usage examples for Pasture

It appeared that the animals were on a distant pasture and that they could not see them until the morrow.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
She watched until she saw him mount his horse and ride off toward the upper pasture.
"Lonesome Land"
B. M. Bower
We fled in miserable panic back to our pasture, followed, luckily, by Leonidas.
"I Walked in Arden"
Jack Crawford

Famous quotes with Pasture

  • I do resent that when you're in the most cool, powerful time of your life, which is your 40s, you're put out to pasture. I think women are so much cooler when they're older. So it's a drag that we're not allowed to age.
    Rosanna Arquette
  • Breed is stronger than pasture.
    George Eliot
  • My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.
    Robert Frost
  • The wool of a thousand sheep in good pasture at the least ought to yield fifty marks a year, the wool of two thousand one hundred marks, and so forth, counting by thousands.
    Robert Grosseteste
  • A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food.
    John Harvey Kellogg

Related words: pasture farming, pasture land, cattle pasture, natural grass pasture, pasture grazing

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