pasture
• noun 1 land covered with grass, suitable for grazing cattle or sheep. 2 grass growing on such land. • verb put (animals) to graze in a pasture. — PHRASES 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. — ORIGIN Latin pastura ‘grazing’, from pascere ‘graze’.
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