pastures
Fields for livestock
Pastures are fields of grass or other plants where livestock graze.
The word suggests open land maintained for animals rather than crops: The cattle were moved to fresh pastures.
Figuratively, greener pastures means better opportunities elsewhere: She left for greener pastures in California.
To pasture animals is to put them out to graze.
Put out to pasture means retired, often dismissively.
Grassy field for grazing
- grasslandTreeless herb-covered ecosystem
- livestockDomesticated farm animals
- cattleDomesticated bovines kept commercially
- sheepWoolly farm animal
graze · herd · forage · fodder · hay · clover · alfalfa · range
Agricultural terrain
- acreageAmount of land owned
- arableFit for cultivation
- cultivationFostering growth through care
- fallowUnplanted field recovering
irrigation · soil · land · crop rotation · planting · harvest · sowing · plowing
More naive or ecological
- opportunityFavorable circumstance for advancement
- abundanceAmple supply, overflowing
- prosperityGood fortune, success
- paradiseIdeal, blissful place
heaven · afterlife · reward · idyllic · peaceful · contentment · new beginnings · promise
meadow
Grassy field for grazing
- grasslandTreeless herb-covered ecosystem
- livestockDomesticated farm animals
- cattleDomesticated bovines kept commercially
sheep · graze · herd · forage · fodder · hay · clover · alfalfa · range · dairy
farmland
Agricultural terrain
- acreageAmount of land owned
- arableFit for cultivation
- cultivationFostering growth through care
fallow · irrigation · soil · land · crop rotation · planting · harvest · sowing · plowing · tillage
greener
More naive or ecological
- opportunityFavorable circumstance for advancement
- abundanceAmple supply, overflowing
- prosperityGood fortune, success
paradise · heaven · afterlife · reward · idyllic · peaceful · contentment · new beginnings · promise
- rural lifefarms, village, villages, farming, farmhouses
- pastoral lifeshepherds, shepherding, herders, herding, herdsmen
- Plainswheat fields, grain elevators, windmills, silos, grain silos
- rural SouthBaptist church, dirt roads, gravel roads, backroads, country roads
- rusticbarns, cabins, farmhouses, log cabins, hay bales
- rural terrainhills, valleys, ridges, slopes, foothills
pasturescropland
Land for growing produce
farmland · orchards · vineyards · arable land · plantations
pasturescities
Major populated areas
urban areas · concrete jungle · industrial zones · factories · downtown
- greener pasturesMore favorable circumstances elsewhere
- put out to pastureForce into retirement
- pasture grazingLivestock feeding on meadowland
- green pasturesFertile grassy land
- putting out to pastureForcing into retirement
- pasture raisedFarmed on grassland