pasture
/ˈpæst͡ʃəɹ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.36 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Land, specifically, an open field, on which livestock is kept for feeding.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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 […]."
- "It was reserved for Christians to torture bread, the staff of life, bread for which children in whole districts wail, bread, the gift of pasture to the poor, bread, for want of which thousands of our fellow beings annually perish by famine; it was reserved for Christians to torture the material of bread by fire, to create a chemical and maddening poison, burning up the brain and brutalizing the soul, and producing evils to humanity, in comparison of which, war, pestilence, and famine, cease to be evils."
- "The farmer pastures fifty oxen."
- "The land will pasture forty cows."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- Proto-Indo-European *péh₂sti Proto-Italic *pāskōr Latin pāscor Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂? Latin -tūra Latin pastūra Anglo-Norman pastourbor. Middle English pasture English pasture Inherited from Middle English pasture, borrowed from Anglo-Norman pastour, from Latin pastūra, from pāscor + -tūra.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈpæst͡ʃəɹ/
- British English: /ˈpɑːst͡ʃə/