Pasture vs. Meadow

Pasturenoun

Land, specifically, an open field, on which livestock is kept for feeding.

Pasturenoun

Ground covered with grass or herbage, used or suitable for the grazing of livestock.

Pasturenoun

(obsolete) Food, nourishment.

Pastureverb

(transitive) To move animals into a pasture.

Pastureverb

(intransitive) To graze.

Pastureverb

(transitive) To feed, especially on growing grass; to supply grass as food for.

Pasturenoun

Food; nourishment.

Pasturenoun

Specifically: Grass growing for the food of cattle; the food of cattle taken by grazing.

Pasturenoun

Grass land for cattle, horses, etc.; pasturage.

Pastureverb

To feed, esp. to feed on growing grass; to supply grass as food for; as, the farmer pastures fifty oxen; the land will pasture forty cows.

Pastureverb

To feed on growing grass; to graze.

Pasturenoun

a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock

Pasturenoun

animal food for browsing or grazing

Pastureverb

let feed in a field or pasture or meadow

Pastureverb

feed as in a meadow or pasture;

Pasturenoun

land covered with grass and other low plants suitable for grazing animals, especially cattle or sheep

Pasturenoun

used to refer to a person's situation in life

Pastureverb

put (animals) to graze in a pasture

Pastureverb

(of animals) graze

Pasture

Pasture (from the Latin pastus, past participle of pascere, ) is land used for grazing. Pasture lands in the narrow sense are enclosed tracts of farmland, grazed by domesticated livestock, such as horses, cattle, sheep, or swine.

Meadownoun

A field or pasture; a piece of land covered or cultivated with grass, usually intended to be mown for hay.

Meadownoun

Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rivers and in marshy places by the sea.

Meadownoun

A tract of low or level land producing grass which is mown for hay; any field on which grass is grown for hay.

Meadownoun

Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rives and in marshy places by the sea; as, the salt meadows near Newark Bay.

Meadowadjective

Of or pertaining to a meadow; of the nature of a meadow; produced, growing, or living in, a meadow.

Meadownoun

a field where grass or alfalfa are grown to be made into hay

Meadownoun

a piece of grassland, especially one used for hay

Meadownoun

a piece of low ground near a river

Meadow

A meadow is an open habitat, or field, vegetated by grasses, herbs, and other non-woody plants. Trees or shrubs may sparsely populate meadows, as long as these areas maintain an open character.