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PASTURE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle

Synonyms:

eatage; forage; grass; pasturage; pasture

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("pasture" is a kind of...):

fodder (coarse food (especially for livestock) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop)

Derivation:

pasture (feed as in a meadow or pasture)

pasture (let feed in a field or pasture or meadow)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock

Synonyms:

grazing land; lea; ley; pasture; pastureland

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("pasture" is a kind of...):

grassland (land where grass or grasslike vegetation grows and is the dominant form of plant life)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pasture"):

common land; commons (a pasture subject to common use)

cow pasture (a pasture for cows)

Holonyms ("pasture" is a part of...):

country; rural area (an area outside of cities and towns)

Derivation:

pasture (feed as in a meadow or pasture)

pasture (let feed in a field or pasture or meadow)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Feed as in a meadow or pasture

Example:

the herd was grazing

Synonyms:

browse; crop; graze; pasture; range

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "pasture" is one way to...):

eat; feed (take in food; used of animals only)

Verb group:

range (let eat)

crop; graze; pasture (let feed in a field or pasture or meadow)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sentence example:

The animals pasture

Derivation:

pasturage; pasture (bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle)

pasture (a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Let feed in a field or pasture or meadow

Synonyms:

crop; graze; pasture

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "pasture" is one way to...):

feed; give (give food to)

Verb group:

browse; crop; graze; pasture; range (feed as in a meadow or pasture)

Domain category:

animal; animate being; beast; brute; creature; fauna (a living organism characterized by voluntary movement)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pasture"):

grass (feed with grass)

drift (drive slowly and far afield for grazing)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They pasture the animals

Derivation:

pasturage; pasture (bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle)

pasture (a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Here, on the contrary, were nothing but naked rocks, poor pasture, and savage, stone-strewn wastes.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And then, one day, again out in the back-pasture, he saw Dick start a jackrabbit and run it.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

All the valley at my right hand was full of pasture- fields, and cornfields, and wood; and a glittering stream ran zig-zag through the varied shades of green, the mellowing grain, the sombre woodland, the clear and sunny lea.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

His eyes fell upon the horses, grazing upon the scanty pasture, and in an instant all had come back to him—his mission, his comrades, the need for haste.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

One day she led him off on a long chase through the back-pasture land into the woods.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

A quiet land is this—a land where the slow-moving Basque, with his flat biretta-cap, his red sash and his hempen sandals, tills his scanty farm or drives his lean flock to their hill-side pastures.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Out in the back-pasture, a quail could flutter up under his nose unharmed.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

"I ought to know. I shot it out of the pack in a moose pasture over 'on Little Stick. An' Ol' Villan cried like a baby. Hadn't seen it for three years, he said. Ben with the wolves all that time."

(White Fang, by Jack London)

A scamper across the pasture, a jackrabbit rising suddenly under the horse's feet, a violent sheer, a stumble, a fall to earth, and a broken leg for the master, was the cause of it.

(White Fang, by Jack London)