Pasture vs Pastureland - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between pasture and pastureland

is that pasture is land on which cattle can be kept for feeding while pastureland is land used for grazing animals.

is to move animals into a pasture to graze.

(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 [...].

* pasture rose * pasture thistle

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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(en noun)

land used for grazing animals