• (British) IPA: /ˈpɑːstjə/, /ˈpɑːstʃə/

pasture

1. Land, specifically, an open field, on which livestock is kept for feeding.
2. Ground covered with grass or herbage, used or suitable for the grazing of livestock.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Psalms 23:2 ↗:

     He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.

   • 1611 April (first recorded performance)​, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act V, scene iv]:

     So graze as you find pasture.

3. (obsolete) Food, nourishment.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.x:

     Ne euer is he wont on ought to feed, / But toades and frogs, his pasture poysonous [...].

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• French: pâture, pâturage, pré, prairie
• German: Weide
• Italian: pastura, pascolo
• Portuguese: pasto
• Russian: па́стбище
• Spanish: pasto, pradera

pasture (pastures, present participle pasturing; past and past participle pastured)

1. (transitive) To move animals into a pasture#Noun|pasture.
2. (intransitive) To graze.
3. (transitive) To feed, especially on growing grass; to supply grass as food for.

   The farmer pastures fifty oxen; the land will pasture forty cows.

• German: weiden
• Russian: пасти́
• Spanish: pastar