pasture

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
pasture/ˈpɑːstʃə(r)/

▶noun

• 1 land covered mainly with grass, suitable for grazing cattle or sheep.

• 2 grass and herbage growing on such land.

▶verb put (animals) to graze in a pasture.

– phrases
pastures new somewhere offering new opportunities. [suggested by ‘Tomorrow to fresh woods and pastures new’ (Milton's Lycidas).]
put out to pasture force to retire.

– origin ME: from OFr., from late L. pastura ‘grazing’, from past-, pascere ‘graze’.