pastureとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑːstjə/, /ˈpɑːstʃə/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈpæstʃɚ/

名詞

pasture (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 pastures)

1. Land, specifically, an open field, on which livestock is kept for feeding.
2. Ground covered with grass or herbage, used or suitable for the grazing of livestock.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Psalms 23:2:

     He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.

   • 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene iv]:

     So graze as you find pasture.

3. (obsolete) Food, nourishment.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.x:

     Ne euer is he wont on ought to feed, / But toades and frogs, his pasture poysonous [...].

   • 1831 July 15, “Of the Blood”, in Western Journal of Health‎^[1], volume 4, number 1, L. B. Lincoln, page 38:

     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.

同意語

• leasow

派生語

動詞

pasture (三人称単数 現在形 pastures, 現在分詞 pasturing, 過去形および過去分詞形 pastured)

1. (transitive) To move animals into a pasture.
2. (intransitive) To graze.
3. (transitive) To feed, especially on growing grass; to supply grass as food for.

   The farmer pastures fifty oxen; the land will pasture forty cows.

アナグラム

• Pasteur, Puertas, Supetar, tear-ups, tears up, uprates, upstare, uptears

Latin

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /paːsˈtuː.re/, [paːs̠ˈt̪uː.ɾɛ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pasˈtu.re/, [pasˈt̪uː.rɛ]

Participle

pāstūre

1. vocative masculine singular of pāstūrus