牧場|ぼくじょうbokujou[0]heiban (flat)

JLPT N2approx.Common
まきばmakiba[0]heiban (flat)
Definitions
  1. nounfarm (livestock); stock farm; ranch; station
    あなたの牧場ぼくじょうは何なんエーカーありますか。↗
    What is the acreage of your ranch?
  2. nounpasture; meadow; grazing land
    牛うしが牧場ぼくじょうで草くさを食たべている。↗
    Cows are eating grass in the meadow.
Synonyms & antonyms
  • Synonym牧野ぼくやWrittenWritten/formal prose for open grazing land; found chiefly in poetry and prose and in place names.
  • Related草地くさちNeutralNeutral. Simply open land covered with grass; it does not have to be used for grazing livestock.
  • Related草原そうげんNeutralNeutral. Vast grassland such as 「モンゴルの草原」; suggests a natural landscape and need not involve livestock at all.
  • Related牧草地ぼくそうちWrittenWritten/formal prose. Land where pasture grass grows or is cultivated; leans toward an agricultural land-use category rather than a working ranch.
  • Related放牧地ほうぼくちWrittenWritten/formal prose, technical: land set aside for grazing animals. In everyday speech 「牧場」 is the usual word.
  • Related牧地ぼくちWrittenWritten/formal prose for grazing land; examples are scarce, and 「牧場」 is what people say in daily life.
  • Related牧まきWrittenRead 「まき」. Grassland where livestock, especially horses, are kept free-range; rare today, surviving mostly in place names.
  • Related採草地WrittenWritten/formal prose and an agricultural technical term: grassland grown for cutting, as hay, rather than a ranch where animals graze.

Use 「牧場」 for a place where livestock are raised by grazing, as in 「牧場で牛を飼う」. For natural grassland say 「草原」 or 「草地」; for agricultural land-use terms turn to 「牧草地」.

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Japanese definitions
  1. 家畜かちくを放牧ほうぼくする土地とち(不動産ふどうさん登記とうき事務じむ取扱とりあつかい手続てつづき準則じゅんそく第だい68条じょう)。
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