pasture
To move animals into a pastureTo move animals into a pasture.
» There are a lot of sheep in the pasture.
Auf der Weide gibt es viele Schafe. — xtofu80
На пастбище много овец. — Balamax
На пастбище пасутся много овец. — Balamax
Zifre · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
3 senses(transitive)To move animals into a pasture.
weiden
пасти́pastí
feed as in a meadow or pasture
(intransitive)To graze.
(transitive)To feed, especially on growing grass; to supply grass as food for.
The farmer pastures fifty oxen.
The land will pasture forty cows.
Examples
69 sentencesThere are a lot of sheep in the pasture.
ruНа пастбище много овец. — Balamax
deAuf der Weide gibt es viele Schafe. — xtofu80
That pasture is ten acres.
ruЭто пастбище десять акров. — corvard
Tom left Boston in pursuit of greener pastures and never looked back.
Том поїхав із Бостона у пошуках кращого життя, і ніколи не шкодував про свій вибір. — deniko · CC BY 2.0 FR
The pasture is full of weeds.
deDie Weide ist voller Unkraut. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
The cows grazed in the pasture.
Translations
5 languagesBy meaning 1
By meaning 1
Origin
Inherited from Middle English pasture, borrowed from Anglo-Norman pastour, from Latin pastInherited from Middle English pasture, borrowed from Anglo-Norman pastour, from Latin pastūra, from pāscor + -tūra.
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Forms
pastures, pasturing, pastured, pasturedSynonyms
4 synonymsWord family
5 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.