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noun

ˈpas-chər How to pronounce pasture (audio)
Definition of pasturenext
as in ranch
open land over which livestock may roam and feed horses grazing in a fenced pasture

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verb

as in to graze
to feed on grass or herbs pasturing sheep on town lands was actually a cheaper alternative to mowing

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Recent Examples of pasture
Noun
But those dugouts are gone now, after a farmer renting the land built a dam on the creek to create a pond for cattle grazing the pasture, according to Kelly. — Jenna Ebbers, Kansas City Star, 12 Aug. 2026 The final link, a fulfillment center on the farm, closed the distance between the pasture and the customer’s porch. — Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 10 Aug. 2026
Verb
Hence their motivation to send Powell out to pasture—save billions in interest payments and take control of the bond market. — Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 24 July 2025 His friend, a 64-year-old shepherd, had requested a permit from authorities that day to check on his sheep, pasturing in the area just above Blatten. — Laura Millan, Bloomberg, 28 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for pasture
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pasture
  1. ranch
  2. graze
  3. yard
  4. pasturage
  5. prairie
Noun
  • Pollard attended Culver High School and lived with an aunt and uncle in Montana while working on a cattle ranch, then helped out his dad on movie sets.
    — Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Outside of music, Beard owned and operated a ranch in Richmond, Texas, and maintained a love of golfing and car racing.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of ranch
Verb
  • Another 16-year-old boy was grazed by gunfire to the arm, and refused medical help at the scene, police said.
    — Deanese Williams-Harris, Chicago Tribune, 19 Aug. 2026
  • The security guard was attempting to intervene in the dispute — which involved a large group — when the guard was grazed in the foot, police spokesman Doug Schepman said.
    — Shelly Bradbury, Denver Post, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of graze
Noun
  • Eduard Löwen played an inward-arcing corner kick and the 6-foot-1 Beecher slammed home a header from 5 yards out in the 27th minute.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2026
  • Blue finished with 19 yards on eight carries, while Mafah finished with nine yards on four carries before exiting with a chest injury.
    — Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of yard
Noun
  • Meanwhile, many of the same people were evicted from their houses as landowners used the crisis to clear off these human encumbrances and free their fields for more profitable pasturage.
    — Fintan O'Toole, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Here in rural Somalia, where about 50% of the people depend on animals for their livelihoods, the locusts are eating the pasturage.
    — NBC News, NBC News, 9 Feb. 2020
Definition of pasturage
Noun
  • In place of herds of bison thundering across the prairie, there were piles of bones a story high and as much as a hundred feet long.
    — Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
  • On her 43 acres of woods and reclaimed native prairie in rural Tazewell County, Katie VandenBerg walked the edge of her property, inspecting a line of oaks bordered by miles of corn and soybean fields.
    — Christiana Freitag, Chicago Tribune, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of prairie

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“Pasture.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pasture. Accessed 21 Aug. 2026.

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