pasture
/ˈpæstʃər/
noun
- Land covered with grass or other plants used for grazing animals such as cows, sheep, or horses.
- The farmer led the cows to the lush green pasture after the morning milking.
- We bought a small pasture behind the barn to keep our horses.
- Sheep grazed peacefully in the mountain pasture all summer long.
- A person's past or former life, especially one that was simpler or more innocent.
- She left her corporate job and returned to her creative pasture as a painter.
- The old man often spoke of his pasture as a time of peace and hard work.
- After retiring from the city, he looked back fondly on his pasture of youth.
verb
- To put animals out to graze on grassland.
- We pasture our sheep on the hillside during the spring months.
- The farmer pastures the goats near the river where the grass is thick.
- Every morning, the rancher pastures the cattle in the east field.
- To graze or feed on grass or plants.
- The deer pastured quietly in the meadow at dawn.
- The sheep pastured along the fence line until the sun set.
- Horses love to pasture on fresh clover and timothy hay.