pastureland

1. 1.

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

   Synonymspasturegrazing landlealey

   Broadergrassland

   Narrowercommonscow pasture

   Part ofcountry

Other forms of pastureland

plural

pasturelands·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about pastureland

What does pastureland mean?

pastureland means "a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock".

How many syllables are in pastureland?

pastureland has 4 syllables: pa-stu-re-land. The stress falls on "stu".

What is another word for pastureland?

Close synonyms include pasture, grazing land, lea, ley. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pastureland a common word?

pastureland is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.