n.
- land covered mainly with grass, suitable for grazing cattle or sheep.
- grass and herbage growing on such land.
v.
put (animals) to graze in a pasture.
Phrase
- pastures new
somewhere offering new opportunities.
[suggested by ‘Tomorrow to fresh woods and pastures new’ (Milton's Lycidas).]
- put out to pasture
force to retire.
Etymology
ME: from OFr., from late L. pastura ‘grazing’, from past-, pascere ‘graze’.