Pasture vs Pastures - What's the difference?
pasture | pastures |
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
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Food, nourishment.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.x:
To move animals into a to graze.
To graze.
To feed, especially on growing grass; to supply grass as food for.
As verbs the difference between pasture and pastures
is that pasture is to move animals into a to graze while pastures is .As a noun pasture
is land on which cattle can be kept for feeding.pasture
English
Noun
(en noun)- He maketh me to lie down in green pastures .
- So graze as you find pasture .
- Ne euer is he wont on ought to feed, / But toades and frogs, his pasture poysonous [...].
Derived terms
* pasture rose * pasture thistleVerb
- The farmer pastures''' fifty oxen; the land will '''pasture forty cows.
