Definition of "pasture" []

• Grass or other vegetation eaten as food by grazing animals. (noun)
• Ground on which such vegetation grows, especially that which is set aside for use by domestic grazing animals. (noun)
• The feeding or grazing of animals. (noun)
• To herd (animals) into a pasture to graze. (verb-transitive)
• To provide (animals) with pasturage. Used of land. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "However, that they feel safe in the pasture is a good thing."
• "Five thousand for a claim on that damned moose-pasture is bunco."
• "Two weeks in pasture, an 'then they go to Lawndale."