pastureland

English

Etymology

From pasture +‎ land.

Noun

pastureland (countable and uncountable, plural pasturelands)

1. Land used for pasture, on which livestock can graze.

   Synonym: pasturage

   Hypernyms: acreage, land, ground

   Coordinate terms: arable, cropland, woodlot, woodland

   • 1990, Peter Jackson, David Morgan, editors, The mission of Friar William of Rubruck (Second Series; No. 173), The Hakluyt Society, →ISBN, page 9:

     "[The steppe's] eastern borderlands had marched from the mid-eleventh century with the pasturelands of a people known to the Latins and Byzantines as the Cumans"

Related terms

• pasturable

 

Translations

land for grazing

• Armenian: արոտավայր (hy) (arotavayr), արոտ (hy) (arot)
• Finnish: laidunmaa (fi)
• Macedonian: па́сиште n (pásište)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: beiteland n, beitemark m or f

  Nynorsk: beiteland n, beitemark f

• Portuguese: pastagem (pt)
• Spanish: pastizal (es) m
• Tibetan: གསིང་མ (gsing ma)

Anagrams

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