pâture
French, noun
pâture is spelled P-Â-T-U-R-E (6 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written French, the 29,273rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pâture is a French feminine noun meaning “grazing food for livestock” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of pâturer. With an accent, pâturé is a different word: “past participle of pâturer”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Nourriture des bêtes, des oiseaux, des poissons”.
What does pâture mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininegrazing food for livestock
- 2
femininepasture (field full of such food)
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of pâturer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Nourriture des bêtes, des oiseaux, des poissons. 2. Lieu où croît la nourriture des animaux qui paissent. 3. Action de faire pâturer. 4. Nourriture.
adjective: 1. Qui a été mangé, tondu par le bétail.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of pâture
- pâtures plural
- pâturée feminine
- pâturés masculine plural
- pâturées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to pâture
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pâture in French?
pâture appears 1.1 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).