pasture

Land covered with grass where farm animals feed.

• The cows are in the pasture.
• The farmer fenced off a new pasture.
• Heavy rain has made the pastures green again.

Similar words: grazing land, grassland

Common phrases: green pasture, pasture land, in the pasture, open pasture

To feed animals by putting them on land where they can eat growing grass.

• They pasture sheep here.
• We pastured the cattle near the river last summer.
• Can you pasture horses on this land?

How to use it: pasture animals on land (They pasture their horses on the hillside.)

Similar words: graze

Common phrases: pasture cattle, pasture sheep, pasture on something