Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The grass or other vegetation eaten by grazing animals.
- noun Land covered with grass or vegetation suitable for grazing animals.
- noun The practice of pasturing grazing animals.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The business of feeding or grazing cattle; pastoral occupation.
- noun Grazingground; land appropriated to grazing.
- noun Grass on which cattle or flocks feed.
- noun In Scots law, the right of pasturing cattle on certain ground.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Grazing ground; grass land used for pasturing; pasture.
- noun Grass growing for feed; grazing.
- noun The business of feeding or grazing cattle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
pasture ; land that is used forpasture . - noun The
grass or othervegetation eaten bylivestock and found in a pasture. - noun The right to
graze livestock on a pasture.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun succulent herbaceous vegetation of pasture land
- noun bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle
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Examples
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The savanna is burned frequently to maintain pasturage for grazing and to keep the land open for hunting.
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The Prince and Princess and their suite fared on without stopping through the first day and the second and the third and the fourth, nor did they cease faring for a whole month till they came to a spacious champaign, abounding in pasturage, where they pitched their tents; and they ate and drank and rested, and the Princess
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I marched from the mountainous bank of the Bashee through a most beautiful and fertile country, strongly undulating and rich in pasturage, over which was visible the track of vast numbers of cattle.
The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B. 1903
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Germans abandoned their immense forests to the exercise of hunting, employed in pasturage the most considerable part of their lands, bestowed on the small remainder a rude and careless cultivation, and then accused the scantiness and sterility of a country that refused to maintain the multitude of its inhabitants.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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They are remarkably accurate in their knowledge of cattle, sheep, and goats, knowing exactly the kind of pasturage suited to each; and they select with great judgment the varieties of soil best suited to different kinds of grain.
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Behind me the city stretches a short distance north before giving way quickly to fields, pasturage, and woodland.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011
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They kept to the brush and trees, and invariably the man halted and peered out before crossing a dry glade or naked stretch of upland pasturage.
War 2010
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Behind me the city stretches a short distance north before giving way quickly to fields, pasturage, and woodland.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011
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On its south, west, and north are towering mountains drained by rivers flowing through plains rich in grains and pasturage.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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On its south, west, and north are towering mountains drained by rivers flowing through plains rich in grains and pasturage.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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