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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pastureland
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Beyond, the pastureland sloped up to the skyline.
▪ Grooves in the pastureland showed where the drive had swung round to the front door.
▪ He had won that place by raising cattle on pastureland made from scratch.
▪ In agricultural districts pastureland is usually fenced.
▪ Over 200m above sea-level barley is grown and there is pastureland for sheep and cattle, with a small amount of woodland.
▪ Stone ruins were dotted about the site, several yards apart, like an abandoned village whose streets had turned to pastureland.
▪ The mare was breathing hard as she trotted up the pastureland.
Wiktionary
pastureland

n. land used for graze animals

WordNet
pastureland

n. a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock [syn: pasture, grazing land, lea, ley]

Usage examples of "pastureland".

Walking out on the back patio from any of the downstairs rooms, one was greeted with the beautiful Friulian pastureland.

Where the foothills gave way to pastureland, the varicosed lines formed by drystone walls were all that marked one field from another.

He would annex Klad, driving forth its barbarian peoples, and take its valuable pasturelands for his own realm.

Sardili Shores, to the metal-rich hills of Koman, the tall mountains of Toth, the rolling pasturelands of Bondalar, the lake district of Carsus, and others, including his own rocky desert.

As they rode south along the river, fields gave way to pasturelands and a series of enclosed fields of flax and hemp near palisaded villages built up in the last two years to replace those burned by Bloodheart and his marauding army.

The remnants of the Horse people have retreated to their most ancient pasturelands as their strength wanes.

Four logs snapped across, raw white splinters showing in their heartwood, and a man arched out to land crumpled in the wet pastureland between the fort and the invaders.

The area south of the wall, though largely sloping pastureland, contained the port and all its appurtenances.

The first job of the Initial colony was to farm the land, experimenting with both Terran and indigenous grains, adapting Terran livestock to Doona and, if possible, domesticating the herd, animals which roamed Doona's pasturelands.

The countryside, which had dropped from the plateau Bellamy sat on into the river valley around Baumen, rose again to rolling plateau, pastureland brightly lighted by the waxing moon and broken only occasionally by a stretch of barb wire fence.

There was a large trailer at the far end of the leased pastureland, fixed up like a bedroom set.

He warmed it up there, and the boy and I stood and watched him make his run and pluck it off and climb over the cabbage palms and live oaks, heading east over the swamps and pasturelands.

We were on a stretch of empty two-lane through the gentle pasturelands above Salem, the cruise control set at a drowsy forty-five.

Munsey Hall - neo-classical in design, constructed from the local honeyed limestone so characteristic of the Cotswolds - began to rise from the lower pasturelands cleared of sheep.

Finally they emerged into daylight, a boggy reed bed that led up to the pastureland where Captain Cartwright and his companion awaited them, perched on shooting sticks with all the arrogance of landed gentry.