pasturing

From the verb pasture: (⇒ conjugate)

pasturing is: ⓘ

v pres p

WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2026

pas•ture /ˈpæstʃɚ/   n., v., -tured, -tur•ing. 
n. 

1. Agriculture Also called pas•ture•land /ˈpæstʃɚˌlænd/.  an area of ground covered with grass plants that cattle may eat;
   grassland:
   [uncountable] The farm has twenty acres of pasture.
   [countable] driving past green pastures and white farmhouses.
2. Agriculture [uncountable] grass or other plants for feeding livestock.

v. [~ + object]

3. Animal Husbandry to feed (farm animals, etc.) by putting (them) out so that they may eat the grass in a pasture.

Idioms

4. Idioms put out to pasture, [put + object + out to pasture]
   • Animal Husbandry to put (cattle) in a pasture so they can eat the grass there:
     The farmer put his cows out to pasture.
   • to dismiss or retire (someone) as being too old:
     Some of these old professors should be put out to pasture.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026

pas•ture  (pas′chər, päs′-), n., v., -tured, -tur•ing. 
n. 

Also called pas•ture•land  (pas′chər land′, päs′-). an area covered with grass or other plants used or suitable for the grazing of livestock;
grassland.
1. Agriculture a specific area or piece of such ground.
2. Agriculture grass or other plants for feeding livestock.
3. Idioms put out to pasture:
   • Animal Husbandry to put in a pasture to graze.
   • to dismiss, retire, or use sparingly as being past one's or its prime:
     Most of our older employees don't want to be put out to pasture.

v.t. 
4. Animal Husbandry to feed (livestock) by putting them out to graze on pasture.
5. Agriculture (of land) to furnish with pasture.
6. Animal Husbandry (of livestock) to graze upon.

v.i. 
7. Animal Husbandry (of livestock) to graze in a pasture.
• Late Latin pāstūra, equivalent. to Latin pāst(us), past participle of pāscere to feed, pasture (compare pastor) + -ūra -ure
• Middle French
• Middle English 1250–1300
pas′tur•al, adj. 
pas′ture•less, adj. 
pas′tur•er, n. 

Pas•ture  (Fr. pä tyr′), n. 

Ro•gi•er  (Fr. rô zhē ā′) or Ro•ger  (Fr. rô zhā′) de la  (Fr. də la). See Weyden, Rogier van der. 

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pasture / ˈpɑːstʃə/ noun

1. land covered with grass or herbage and grazed by or suitable for grazing by livestock
2. a specific tract of such land

verb

1. (transitive) to cause (livestock) to graze or (of livestock) to graze (a pasture)

Etymology: 13th Century: via Old French from Late Latin pāstūra, from pascere to feed