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Lawn vs Pasture - What's the difference?

lawn | pasture |

As nouns the difference between lawn and pasture

is that lawn is an open space between woods while pasture is land on which cattle can be kept for feeding.

As a proper noun Lawn

is a town in Newfoundland and Labrador.

As a verb pasture is

to move animals into a pasture to graze.

lawn

English

(wikipedia lawn)

Etymology 1

Early Modern English "; Old Norse & Old English land

Noun

  • An open space between woods.
  • Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.
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  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path […]. It twisted and turned,
  • (lb) An overgrown agar culture, such that no separation between single colonies exists.
  • Derived terms
    * lawn mower * lawned

    Etymology 2

    Apparently from (Laon) , a town in France known for its linen manufacturing.

    Noun

  • (uncountable) A type of thin linen or cotton.
  • * 1897 , (Bram Stoker), Dracula :
  • The stream had trickled over her chin and stained the purity of her lawn death robe.
  • * 1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, p. 144:
  • He looked through the glass at the fire, set it down on the end of the desk and wiped his lips with a sheer lawn handkerchief.
  • (in the plural) Pieces of this fabric, especially as used for the sleeves of a bishop.
  • (countable, obsolete) A piece of clothing made from lawn.
  • * 1910 , Margaret Hill McCarter, The Price of the Prairie :
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    pasture

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Land on which cattle can be kept for feeding.
  • Ground covered with grass or herbage, used or suitable for the grazing of livestock.
  • * Bible, Psalms xxiii. 2
  • He maketh me to lie down in green pastures .
  • * Shakespeare
  • So graze as you find pasture .
  • (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 [...].

    Derived terms

    * pasture rose * pasture thistle

    Verb

  • To move animals into a to graze.
  • To graze.
  • To feed, especially on growing grass; to supply grass as food for.
  • The farmer pastures''' fifty oxen; the land will '''pasture forty cows.

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